Language: Chinese with scientific nomenclature
The Penghu Islands, also known as Pescadores, are an archipelago off the western coast of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait consisting of 64 small islands and islets covering an area of 141 square kilometers. Shells of Penghu figures the mollusk species found in this region and reports their records on distribution maps. Each species is treated on a single page. Altogether 3 Polyplacophora, 248 Gastropoda (including 5 species of land shells), 1 Scaphopoda, 51 Bivalvia and 7 Cephalopoda are figured.