>So the question goes now to Gary or Kurt: What area has, or ever had, the
greatest diversity of mollusks?
I'd guess the Philippines. Lots of islands, extremely high marine diversity
and high endemism among land snails. I've heard estimates of 10,000 living
species, although the land snails are going extinct fast.
Gary
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