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Dear MoFA members, dear friends of malacology, in 2025, we look back on another successful year, including a landscape maintenance campaign in Bad Fischau-Brunn (in cooperation with the Landschaftspflegeverein Thermenlinie) to benefit the endemic Austrian heath snail Helicopsis austriaca (see report in German), a MoFA excursion to the Anninger near Mödling, a very successful 4th […]
The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, is seeking to fill as soon as possible the following position in the Zoology Department, Section Malacology in Görlitz (Germany): Technical Assistant (m/f/d) Employment: part-time (50% / 20 hours per week) Contract type: initially limited to 2 years with the option of becoming permanent Application […]
Dear friends of Malacology, we are pleased to share the 24th edition of the newsletter of the Malakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzburg. Enjoy reading and have a wonderful pre-Christmas period!
Dear MoFA members, dear friends of malacology! The latest issue of our scientific journal ARIANTA has just been published online – ARIANTA 12. We are pleased to cover a diverse mix of exciting malacological topics in this brand-new issue. In addition to a short review and abstracts from the 4th MoFA conference 2025, it contains […]
The CORE program invites applications of scientists for short term visits to study the globally and regionally important biological and paleontological collections of the Oberösterreichische Landes-Kultur GmbH (OÖLKG) in Linz, Austria. The program aims at further enhancing the institution’s role as a center of collection-based biodiversity research (e.g. taxonomy, phylogenetics etc.). Application deadlines: 31 December […]
The deadline for the excursion to the Anninger near Mödling on 19. September 2025 is approaching. Please register until 12. September at team@molluskenforschung.at. We will become familiar with the typical mollusc fauna of the Vienna Woods as well as rare species significant for nature conservation, along with two Mediterranean species that are found only here […]
Dear friends of Malacology! We are pleased to send you the preliminary programme for this year’s MoFA meeting in Linz – once again, it is very diverse and interesting. Please refer to our meeting page for further details. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via team@molluskenforschung.at. We look forward […]
On 19. September 2025, we are planning a malacological excursion to the Anninger near Mödling, led by Michael Duda and Elisabeth Haring. The excursion is a joint event of the society Mollusc Research Austria (MoFA) with the Zoological-Botanical Society in Austria (ZooBot). We would like to explicitly invite all those interested in molluscs to get to […]
Dear friends of Malacology, we are pleased to share the latest edition of the newsletter of the Malakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzburg. In addition, an article on freshwater mussels was recently published in which R. Patzner, head of the Malakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzburg, contributed to: Lopes-Lima, M., Aldridge, D.C., Álvarez, M.G. et al. (2025): A curated dataset on the […]
Dear friends of Malacology, the MoFA conference is getting closer! Date: 26.–27. September 2025 in Linz, Upper Austria Your early registration will make our planning easier! Registration deadline and abstract submission extended! 20. July 2025 → Webpage If you have already registered or are planning to do so, please think about accommodation! The available rooms […]