Abstract
Research on the malacological fauna of the Caribbean Province on the Atlantic coast of Central America, and particulary in Costa Rica, is reviewed. A list of marine mollusks collected in ten localities of the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, is presented. This inventory has 395 species: 288 Gastropoda, 100 Pelecypoda, 5 Polyplacophora, and 2 Cephalopoda.References
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