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
“Pub Science” (“Wissenschaft im Wirtshaus”) in Johnsbach 2017
"Pub Science" ("Wissenschaft im Wirtshaus") which will focus on the biology and ecological needs of rock dwelling animals and plants. This public event will take place on Sunday, August 20th, the research activities will last until August 26th. Download program:...
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Alpine Land Snails Workshop 2017 – On the rocks
The Workshop "Alpine Land Snails 2017" will traditionally take place again in Johnsbach, Styria, Austria. Austrian biologists and colleagues from Germany, Russia, Slovenia, Greece, Montenegro and Hungary will gather in this extraordinary place in Gesäuse to perform...
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Solving the Cylindrus riddle – two new papers are out
We are happy to announce that recently two papers on our “Alpine land snails” flagship species Cylindrus obtusus were published.
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Visit from Montenegro
In June the working group Alpine Land Snails (NHM Vienna) was glad to welcome Prof. Vladimir Pešić and Prof. Vesna Vukašinović-Pešić in Vienna to discuss the progress of our joint OeAD-WTZ (Project No. ME 10/ 2016) project on the rock dwelling door snail species...
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Black Nerite (Theodoxus prevostianus) reintroduction
In a recently published paper (Fehér et al. 2017) we have reported on the successful reintroduction of a rare and endangered species, the Black Nerite, Theodoxus prevostianus (C. Pfeiffer, 1828). This is a freshwater neritid species , occurring in hypothermal springs...
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Montenegro excursion – April 2017
Members of the working group Alpine Land Snails of the NHM have visited Montenegro recently in the frame of a co-operation project with the University of Montenegro funded by the OeAD-WTZ (Project No. ME 10/ 2016). Under supervision of Prof. Vladimir Pesic we...
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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...
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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...
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“Schnecken checken” students as Citizen Scientists
Fotos and Videos
read moreView of the Korab Mountains from the bank
of Drin River near Fushë-Muhurr, Albania