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Welcome to the Unitas Malacologica web site!
Unitas Malacologica is the society for worldwide malacologists and malacology. Our aim is to further the study of Mollusca by individuals, societies and institutions worldwide.

UM Council





2022 Congress
The next UM Congress will be hosted in Munich, Germany in July 2022. See the WCM 2022 website for details.

Student Research & Travel Awards
Congratulations to the 2021 research award recipients and 2022 travel grant recipients! View the list here.

President
Gerhard Haszprunar
Bavarian State Scientific Collections (SNSB), Germany

Secretary
Yasunori Kano
University of Tokyo, Japan

Treasurer
Bernhard Ruthensteiner
SNSB – Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Germany

Past President
Terry Gosliner
California Academy of Sciences, USA

Members of Council

Tauana Junqueira Cunha
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Gonzalo Giribet
Harvard University, USA

Kevin Kocot
University of Alabama, USA

Suzanne Williams
Natural History Museum, London, UK

A statement from the Unitas Malacological Council dated 14 March 2022: We, the council of UNITAS Malacologica, express our severe shock over the current situation in the Ukraine. As representatives of the malacological community, we strongly condemn the invasion, which has had a devastating impact on the people and infrastructure of Ukraine. We express our sympathy for the suffering of the Ukrainian people and deplore the ongoing loss of life. We denounce the deliberate destruction of civil infrastructure, including of scientific and research objects. We offer our support to our scientific colleagues who have been touched by the conflict and our fellow scientific institutions in the Ukraine. We call for a rapid and peaceful end to the conflict.

Website editor: Kevin Kocot (kmkocot[at]ua.edu)