Short Subjects
from September, 1996
MALACOLOG
/ CLEMAM - A Marine Molluscan Database
MALACOLOG is a project to create a single computer database
incorporating all the marine mollusca of Europe and the Western
Atlantic, under the auspices of Unitas Malacologia. Editor-in-Chief
of the project is Dr. Gary Rosenberg of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia, and Serge Gofas is the taxonomic editor
of the European section. It is, at this point, a coordination
of two independent lists: CLEMAM is a database of European marine
Mollusca compiled by Serge Gofas and Jacques le Renard (http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/bimm/clemam);
MALACOLOG is a data base of western Atlantic mollusks developed
by Dr. Gary Rosenberg (http://erato.acnatsci.org).
It is hoped that these endeavors will ultimately lead to a worldwide
database of recent mollusks, marine, land and freshwater.
Unitas Malacologia
Did you know that there's a worldwide organization devoted to
furthering the study of Mollusca by individuals, societies and
institutions worldwide? From modest beginnings in western Europe
as Unitas Malacologia Europaea, it has expanded to encompass
malacologists all over the world. Current President is Dr. Rudiger
Bieler, Chairman of the Department of Malacology at the Field
Museum in Chicago. The Unitas Malacologia Newsletter is produced
in Australia by Dr. Winston Ponder. The society meets every
three years; its last congress was held in Vigo, Spain in September,
1995, and the next one will be held in Washington D.C., simultaneously
with the annual meeting of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American
Malacological Union, July 25-31, 1998, as the First World Congress
of Malacology. Want to know more? Get in touch with U.M Secretary
Dr. Jackie Van Goethem, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences,
Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. Phone 32 3 627 4343,
fax 32 2 646 4433
