Shell Family of Taiwan
Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科 contain364 species in Taiwan,show136 - 150
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Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科Shell generally fusiform or cylindrical. Surface glossy, generally with strong axial ribs. Aperture narrow, elongated with plicae on columellar lip. Siphonal canal attenuated, relatively narrow. Operculum absent. Radula rachiglossate with unicuspid lateral teeth. Divergent in tropical to warm temperate shallow water.
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 Vexillum caloxestum   Melvill, 1888  
 Vexillum catenatum   (Broderip, 1836)  
 Vexillum cerithinum   (Mevill, 1888)  
 Vexillum charlesi   Turner & Callomon, 2001  
 Vexillum chelonia   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum chibaensis   (Salisbury & Rosenberg, 1999)  
 Vexillum chickcharneorum   Lyons & Kaicher, 1978  
 Vexillum choslenae   Cernohorsky, 1982  
 Vexillum cingulatum   (Lamarck, 1811)  
 Vexillum cithara   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum citrinum   Gmelin, 1791  
 Vexillum clathrata   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Vexillum coccineum 紅蛹筆螺  (Reeve, 1844)  
 Vexillum collinsoni   (A. Adams, 1864)  
 Vexillum compressum   (Sowerby, 1874)