Dear MoFA members and friends of malacology!

On 11. July 2026, the annual Day of Biodiversity in Tyrol will take place in the Ötztal valley, just as it was in 2007. During the Day of Biodiversity in 2007, not a single mollusc species was recorded due to a lack of local malacologists – a situation we hope to change this year. We are therefore looking for (prospective) malacologists who could assist our on-site malacologist, amongst other things, with the field surveys on 11 July, or with the follow-up species determinations of collected shells for the final species list.

Please register directly with the organiser, and for the mollusc group, please also briefly contact a MoFA member on-site for coordination purposes.

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 MoFA Conference in Linz where the new MoFA Scholarship and the MoFA Junior Awards were awarded, and the publication of the MoFA journal Arianta 12.

Before publication is after publication: we are accepting submissions of manuscripts for Arianta 13. If you have interesting observations, investigations, or reports on mollusks that you would like to publish with us, please send your manuscript (as a Word text file) including figures and tables to team@molluskenforschung.at. Please note the guidelines for authors when submitting your manuscript.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2026!