Abstract: The book touching on 34 families of freshwater gastropods (snails) and 9 families of freshwater bivalves (mussels and clams), each chapter provides a synthesis of the latest research on the diversity and evolutionary relationships of the family. Freshwater Mollusks of the World also includes:

- a look at how evolving DNA sequencing data techniques help shed light on mollusk taxonomy

- distribution maps of each family's biogeographic locales

- a representative photo and distribution map for each of the freshwater mollusk families

- the latest information on each family's conservation status—and how to reverse the habitat destruction, modification, and pollution that threatens it

- a discussion of the ecological and economic damages caused by invasive mollusk species, as well as their role as disease vectors

Mollusks provide us with amazing biogeographical insights: their ancient fossil record goes back over 500 million years, and their distribution patterns are a reflection of past continental and climate changes. The only comprehensive summary of systematic and biodiversity information on freshwater mollusk families throughout the world, Freshwater Mollusks of the World is a must for malacologists, limnologists, ichthyologists, stream ecologists, biogeographers, and conservation biologists.