About Us
The “Alpine Land Snails Working Group” is primarily located at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. It was founded in the course of projects carried out in the 1990ties on Alpine land snails, and a comprehensive FWF-project performed between 2007 and 2011. While in the first period the genera Arianta and Cylindrus were in the focus of our research, several other taxa were included in the course of the FWF-project centered on East Alpine species of the genera Cylindrus, Orcula, Trochulus, Petasina, Clausilia, Vertigo, Pyramidula and Cochlostoma.
Our Team
Our team currently consists of about 20 people. The photo shows part of the group on an excursion to the Austrian mountain Schneeberg in the year 2010 (from left to right):
Luise Kruckenhauser
Elisabeth Haring
Katharina Mason
Laura Zopp
Michael Duda
Josef Harl
Helmut Sattmann
Partners and Supporters
Museum of Natural History, Vienna
FWF Austrian Science Fund
Friends of the Natural Museum of History
We are grateful to all our colleagues and friends who supported us with material, ideas and enthusiasm. We also thank all institutions who provided financial support and infrastructure.
From our Blog
Brochure for the exhibition “Streck die Fühler aus”
For the exhibition "Streck die Fühler aus", which will open next week at the Biologiezentrum in Linz, the accompanying brochure is already available online. Members of MoFA, together with the colleagues in Linz, contributed significantly to the brochure in image and...
Usage of Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833 conserved by the ICZN
A year-long controversy about the generic affiliation of the Austrian endemic Cylindrus obtusus recently came to an end. According to some authors, the generic name Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833 should be considered as invalid as it is pre-occupied by Cylindrus Batsch,...
Looking back at 2018
At the beginning of 2019 it´s time to look back to the last year of the "Alpine Land Snail Group". Several publications and projects were finished in 2018. In March, a further paper on the genus Montenegrina about range-wide taxon co-occurrence was published as an...
Arianta 6 now available online!
19th-24th August 2018 – Workshop Alpine Land Snails in Johnsbach
Our workshop "Alpine Land Snails" took place again this year in Johnsbach in Gesäuse (Styria). The mix of field trips, outdoor work and scientific program, cultural contributions and discussions and project planning can, as always, be outlined as "intense and...
2018 Workshop of the Alpine Land Snails working group
Since 20 years the Alpine Land Snails working group has been organizing excursion workshops dedicated to recent projects in malacology, frequently with emphasis on Alpine land snails. Colleagues from Austria and many other countries meet to present...
From our Galleries
Alpine Land Snails extended – Workshop 2016: Photos
After a one year break we were happy to meet again at the restaurant Kölblwirt in Johnsbach for the Workshop “Alpine Land Snails extended” which took place from 1.-5. August 2016. Read more on our blog.
Field trip in Albania – June, 2016
The first Albanian field trip of 2016 took place in June. The members of the team were Zoltán Erőss, Zoltán Fehér, Jozef Grego, Maros Grego and Miklós Szekeres. Our primary aim was to find Montenegrina chiasma in the Mt. Dajti (central Albania) and Montenegrina...
“Schnecken checken” students as Citizen Scientists
View of the Korab Mountains from the bank
of Drin River near Fushë-Muhurr, Albania