The book Colombian Seashells from the Caribbean Sea contributed to the cataloguing of 1530 species, placing Colombia as the country with the richest diversity of marine mollusks in the Western Hemisphere, followed by Brazil, Cuba and the United States (Database of Western Atlantic Marine Molluscs, 2010).
We also believe that due to the geographic diversity of the continental and insular Colombian Caribbean, we possess around 70% of the recorded species in the entire Western Hemisphere.
We hope that this book can encourage future researchers to expand their knowledge in the preservation of our mollusk fauna.
