Marine mollusks of Chile is a information site for biologists, fans, seashells collectors and all the interested ones in discovering and knowing the fascinating malacofauna of Chile.
To the present time an approximated total of 1070 Chilean marine live species has been described. The majority correspond to the Class Gastropoda (limpets, snails), secondarily to the Class Bivalvia (clams, oysters, mussels and scallops) and then to the Class Cephalopoda (octopi, squids and cuttlefishes).
In the science that classify the live organisms, the Taxonomy or Systematics, the name of Phylum is assigned to a big animal group -like molluscs- with similar characteristics, so that this Phylum can be divided into Classes (that are composed by Orders, divided into Families formed as well by a group of Species).
