SOCIETY MoFA

Mollusc Research Austria

Austrian platform for mollusc researcher

Portrait of MoFA

„Molluskenforschung Austria“ (MoFA) is a society founded as an Austrian platform for Malacologists supporting their projects and activities as well as the communication with related research groups and initiatives at a national and international level.
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Board

In the first general meeting of the society in January 2017 the society´s organs were elected. Presently the board of MoFA consists of the following persons Read more…

Membership

You are interested in malacological research and would like to become a member of the society „Molluskenforschung Austria“? Here you learn all about a MoFA membership.

Support

You would like to support the society „Molluskenforschung Austria“? Keep up to date with our Newsletter and support with your donation the work of MoFA. Thank you!

Trochulus sp., Foto: L. Kruckenhauser

Unio crassus, Foto: A. Mrkvicka

Aegopis verticillus, Foto: K. Mason

Physella sp., Foto: A. Mrkvicka

Cylindrus obtusus, Foto: B. Tautscher

Helicopsis austriaca, Foto: A. Mrkvicka

News

Merry Christmas

Updates

Helmut Sattmann

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 […]

23. December 2025/by Sonja Bamberger

Call for applications

Updates

A. Mrkvicka

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 […]

10. December 2025/by Sonja Bamberger

Contact us!

Verein „Molluskenforschung Austria“
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Burgring 7
1010 Wien

E-Mail: team@molluskenforschung.at

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