Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 96. (Budapest 2004)

Glöer, P. ; Fehér, Z.: Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) in Hungary (Prosobranchia: Bithyniidae)

The distribution of Hungarian molluscs The catalogue of the Mollusca Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum Z. Fehér and A. Gubányi Authors aimed to continue the traditions of Hungarian faunal mapping set by Pintér and co-workers in 1979, and to create a computer programme and a database, that are able to collect and manage data both from the literature and collections and able to create distribution maps. Due to this "living" data system, where the integration of new data is permanently done and the errors are continuously corrected, the results are published in electronic format in English and Hungarian. The CD contains the catalogue in pdf format (the reader programme Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 also present). As the first step, this CD contains the checklist of the Hungarian molluscs and their distribution data based on the Mollusca Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Distribution of the 220 gastropod and 24 bivalve species in the collection are illustrated in 10x10 km UTM grid maps, and all of their sampling sites are listed by UTM grids. The checklist follows the nomenclature of the CLECOM (Checklist of the European Continental Mollusca) project. With all those speciess that are known under a different synonym name in Hungary, or occur in Hungary but not mentioned in the CLECOM list, or are missing from the HNHM collection, or that are incorrectly indicated in Hungary, or their taxonomie position is judged by a competent Hungarian malacologist in another way then given in CLECOM, authors deal with in the Appendix. A glossary of the frequently used common names and geographical terms helps the use of the locality list. This issue will hopefully be followed by others containing literature data and data of other Hungarian mollusc collections, and the series will become a useful tool for malacologists dealing with zoogeography, ecology and nature conservation. Published in 2001. 466 pages on CD disk. Price: 30 euro plus p. and p. ISBN 963 7093 70 2 Orders should be sent to The Library. Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary Fax: (36-1) 3171669