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This year we celebrate a special anniversary of the “Alpine Landsnails workshop” in Johnsbach! It will take place Sunday August 19th to Thursday 23rd. (The arrival might be changed to Monday, thus the official programme will start on Monday 20th ). Some of us consider...

A phylogeographical reconstruction of the ‘Viennese Snail’ (Caucasotachea vindobonensis), contributed by our working group, has been published recently. This gastropod species is currently distributed mostly in the Central- and Eastern European steppic region, and …

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...

We are happy to announce that recently two papers on our “Alpine land snails” flagship species Cylindrus obtusus were published.

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...

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...

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...

We are happy to announce that the primer note of 13 microsatellite loci for Montenegrina has been published.  Short Summary Thirteen microsatellite loci with a...