Folia Malacologica, a Graphs Devoted to Individual Species Are Very Rare in Specialist Journal to Which El¿Bieta Was Emotionally At- Malacological Literature

Vol. 18(1): 1–4 FOLIA

MALACOLOGICAISSN 1506-7629 The Association of Polish Malacologists & Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznañ 2010

doi:10.2478/v10125-010-0001-4

EL¯BIETA KORALEWSKA-BATURA (1949–2008)

OBITUARY

Our colleague and friend, Professor El¿bieta Kora- lewska-Batura, died on September 12th 2008 in Po- znañ after a long illness, at the age of 59. El¿bieta was a well-known and valued malacologist, and a staff member of the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University. Besides malacology, her research interests included biology teaching. She was buried in Poznañ, at the parish cemetery, Jasna Rola Street. On the first anniversary of her death we would like to commemo- rate her, and recall her main achievements as a malacologist and as a teacher. El¿bieta Koralewska-Batura was born on the 12th of May 1949 in Pyzdry, Wrzeœnia district (Wielko- polska voivodeship). Having finished elementary school, she continued her education at the Pedagogi- cal High School in Konin. After her school leaving exam she spent half a year working as a teacher in an elementary school. In 1969 El¿bieta started her bio- logical studies at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ. During all her study period she was an outstanding student. In 1974 she obtained her master’s degree in biology (zoology), with top grades. The title of El¿bieta’s master’s thesis was “Œlimaki (Gastropoda) l¹dowe i wodne Ziemi Wrzesiñskiej” [Terrestrial and fresh- water gastropods of the Wrzeœnia Region]; the thesis was prepared at the Department of General Zoology and supervised by the outstanding malacologist Pro- fessor Jaros³aw Urbañski. Immediately after getting faunistic-ecological and morpho-anatomical charac- her degree, El¿bieta became employed as biology ter. She worked first under supervision of and then in teacher at the College for Nursery School Teachers in cooperation with the outstanding specialist in mol- Sulechów. lusc anatomy, Professor Maria Jackiewicz. She took On September 1st 1975 El¿bieta became employed part in interdisciplinary field studies on the fauna of as an academic teacher – scientific assistant at the De- oak-hornbeam forests of western Wielkopolska, where partment of General Zoology, Institute of Biology, she surveyed the terrestrial malacocoenoses. As a Adam Mickiewicz University. At that time she married teacher El¿bieta was much appreciated by her stu- Mr. Ryszard Batura, M. Sc., Eng., a scientist from dents. At the same time she cooperated with schools Poznañ Technical University, and gave birth to a son. (within biology teaching), and since 1994 was respon- During all her professional life, El¿bieta dealt with sible for organising field courses for students of the malacology and biology teaching, being a very trust- Faculty of Biology. worthy and scrupulous worker, much valued by her El¿bieta Koralewska-Batura got her doctor’s de- colleagues. Her malacological studies were mainly of gree within zoology on the 20th February 1984; her 2 Obituary thesis was “Miêczaki (Mollusca) Wielkopolski” [Mol- cies…”. In 2005 El¿bieta became extraordinary profes- luscs of Wielkopolska], supervised by Professor sor of Adam Mickiewicz University. Kazimierz Stêpczak. The results were published un- Professor El¿bieta Koralewska-Batura was a very der the same title in 1992. Regional studies on the universal malacologist, dealing not only with malacofauna of Wielkopolska were very important for faunistics and anatomy; she was also the first to start El¿bieta from the very start. Creating the unique com- studying gastropod communities of oak-hornbeam puter database with all the available (published and forests of Wielkopolska. She was an outstanding field unpublished) information on the molluscs of biologist who collected all material herself. Her scien- Wielkopolska was her idea. These studies were later to tific production includes more than 40 publications. form the basis for a cycle of publications on the state El¿bieta was one of the initiators of the series of of knowledge of the malacofauna of the region. monographs on gastropods, since 2000 published by Another field in which El¿bieta was an unquestion- the Kontekst Publishers. Very pedantic, despite her able authority was snail anatomy. The long lasting co- poor health in the last years, she arranged and cata- operation with Professor Maria Jackiewicz in this re- logued her collection till the very last moment, and spect brought numerous publications on the anatomy transferred it to the Natural History Collections, Fac- of various snail specis, published in widely recognised ulty of Biology. She started curating the malacological Polish and international scientific journals. El¿bieta materials accumulated by students during prepara- obtained her degree of habilitated doctor on the 21st tion of their diploma theses. This task she never man- of June 2000, based on the monograph “Helix lutescens aged to complete… Rossmässler, 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Fighting with the incurable disease, El¿bieta never Helicidae) – its structure, biology and ecology”, in for a moment stopped her scientific studies, field which her own original anatomical studies and obser- work and writing. When she died, many of these pa- vations on circadian and seasonal activity as well as pers, though still not published, were completed or mating behaviour and reproduction formed a very nearly completed. Her colleagues and co-authors of valuable part. This was well illustrated by a fragment the papers decided to publish them. The series will of Professor Jackiewicz’s review of the thesis: “Mono- appear in consecutive issues of Folia Malacologica, a graphs devoted to individual species are very rare in specialist journal to which El¿bieta was emotionally at- malacological literature. Their preparation is extremely tached from the very beginning. time-consuming. The publication of Dr. El¿bieta El¿bieta supervised numerous bachelor’s and mas- Koralewska-Batrura is a very valuable, comprehensive ter’s theses, as well as one doctoral thesis. She was a monograph of an otherwise rather poorly studied species (He- member of the Poznañ Scientific Society and the As- lix lutescens). The original data contained in it pertain to sociation of Polish Malacologists. She was very a very morphology, anatomy, histology, as well as biology and ecol- unassuming person and a good friend, and we will re- ogy. Some illustrations are so instructive and perfect that member her so. they can be used in future textbooks. The monograph con- Head and staff siderably expands and enriches our knowledge of the spe- of the Department of General Zoology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ Obituary 3

EL¯BIETA KORALEWSKA-BATURA – PUBLICATION LIST

KORALEWSKA E. 1979. Œlimaki (Gastropoda) Ziemi Wrzesiñ- STÊPCZAK K., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., LEŒNIEWSKA M., skiej. Bad. Fizjogr. Pol. Zach., C – Zoologia 32: 105–113. STÊPCZAK G. 1996. Program nauczania w klasach IV–VIII KORALEWSKA-BATURA E.,STÊPCZAK K. 1980. Wdra¿anie pro- szko³y podstawowej “Biologia z higien¹ i ochron¹ przyro- gramu biologii powszechnej szko³y œredniej w klasie IV. dy”. Zatwierdzony do u¿ytku szkolnego przez MEN w In: BOGDAÑSKA A. (ed.). Problemy metodologiczne eks- dniu 3. 07. 1996 r. nr decyzji DKO 4014–3/96. WSZiP, perymentalnych badañ programowych. WSZiP, Warsza- Warszawa, pp. 1–20. wa, pp. 95–97 KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1997. Sinistrally coiled specimen of KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1982. Plan lekcji biologii klasy IV Helix lutescens Rossmässler, 1837 (Gastropoda: szko³y podstawowej z dzia³u “Higiena i zdrowie cz³owie- Stylommatophora: Helicidae). Malak. Abh. 18: 233–237. ka”. Biologia w Szkole, Warszawa l(35/177): 42–43. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1997. Analysis of lung haemal sys- KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., STÊPCZAK K. 1983. Organizacja sku- tem in Helix lutescens Rossm. (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). pu winniczków oraz problemy ich przechowywania i Bioll. Bull. Poznañ 34: 69–72. transportu w punktach skupu i bazach eksportowych. Pr. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1998. Œlimaki l¹dowe (Gastropoda Kom. Biol. PTPN, Warszawa-Poznañ: 85–94. terrestria) wysp leœnych. In: BANASZAK J. (ed.). Ekologia KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1989. Œlimaki (Gastropoda) wybra- wysp leœnych. Wyd. WSP, Bydgoszcz, pp. 81–84. nego lasu gr¹dowego Wielkopolski na przyk³adzie rezer- JACKIEWICZ M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., LESICKI A. 1998. watu Jakubowo. Fragm. Faun. 32: 445–456. Anomalies of soft body parts in Acicula polita (Hartmann, KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1990. Budowa strza³ki mi³osnej u 1840), Deroceras laeve (O.F. Müller, 1774) and Deroceras gatunków rodzaju Cepaea (Held) (Mollusca, Pulmonata). reticulatum (O.F. Müller, 1774) (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Przegl. Zool. 35: 391–393. Biol. Bull. Poznañ 35: 39–42. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1992. Miêczaki (Mollusca) Wielko- KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1999. Helix lutescens Rossmässler, polski. Wyd. Nauk. UAM Poznañ, Ser. Zool. 18: 1–41. 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicidae) – its structure, biology and ecology. Folia Malacol. 7: 197–240. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., DZIABASZEWSKI W. 1992. Miêczaki (Mollusca) ³êgów rogaliñskich. Morena. Wielkopolski JACKIEWICZ M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1999. Pneumo- Park Narodowy, cz³owiek i œrodowisko – wybrane proble- stome structure in Helix pomatia Linnaeus, 1758 and H. my l: 42–43 lutescens Rossmässler, 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata; Helicidae) – another diagnostic character. Folia Malacol. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1993. Nowe dane o wystêpowaniu 7: 43–45. Helix lutescens Rossmässler, 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmona- ta) w Polsce. Przegl. Zool. 37: 69–72. JACKIEWICZ M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., LESICKI A. 1999. Shell anomalies and regenerations in some snail species KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1993. Œlimaki (Gastropoda) sie- (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malak. Abh. 19: 257–264. dlisk gradowych pod Opalenic¹ (woj. poznañskie). Bad. Fizjogr. Pol. Zach., C – Zoologia 39: 49–63. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E.,DZIABASZEWSKI A. 2000. New lo- calities of Cepaea vindobonensis Ferussac, 1821) KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1993. L¹dowa fauna miêczaków (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicidae) in Wielkopolska (Mollusca) Wielkopolski. Bad. Fizjogr. Pol. Zach., C – (W Poland). Folia Malacol. 8: 229–231. Zoologia 40: 5–13. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2000. Terrestrial gastropods. In: KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1993. Charakterystyka biometrycz- BANASZAK J. (ed.) Ecology of forest islands. Bydgoszcz na skorupki œlimaka ¿ó³tawego (Helix lutescens Rossm.) w University Press, pp. 79–82. Polsce. Przegl. Zool. 37: 283–289. TRYJANOWSKI P., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2000. Inter-habi- KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1993. Die Struktur der Liebespfeile tat shell morphometric differentation of the snail Helix der Gattung Helix Linnaeus (Gastropoda:Pulmonata: lutescens Rossm. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Ekologia Helicidae). Folia Malacol. 5: 115–118. (Bratislava) 19: 111–116. JACKIEWICZ M., B£OSZYK J., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1993. JACKIEWICZ M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2000. Columella Die Nacktschnecken der rischen Kiefemwalder (Leucobryo structure in some snail species (Gastropoda: Pulmona- – Pinetum und Peucedano – Pinetum) auf dem Gebiet Po- ta). Folia Malacol. 8: 223–227. lens (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malak. Abh. 16: 213–220. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2002. Winniczek i jego krewniacy. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1994. Development of reproducti- In: WIESIO£OWSKI J. (ed.) Wœród zwierz¹t i roœlin. Wyd. ve organs of Helix lutescens Rossm. (Gastropoda, Pulmo- Miejskie, Kronika Miasta Poznania, Poznañ, pp. 91–100. nata). Biol. Bull. Poznañ 31: 67–70. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2002. Œlimak ¿ó³tawy (Helix lutescens KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1994. Bau der Radula bei einigen Rossm.). Budowa, biologia ekologia i wystêpowanie w Arten der Familie Helicidae aus Polen (Gastropoda: Pul- Polsce. Wyd. Kontekst, Poznañ. monata). Biol. Bull. Poznañ 31: 71–82. CHOLEWA S., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., BATURA M. 2003. A JACKIEWICZ M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1995. The shell sur- new locality of Monacha cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774) face sculpture of Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicidae) in Poland. Folia Basommatophora). Malak. Abh. 17: 191–198. Malacol. 11: 59–61. JACKIEWICZ M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 1995. The shell sur- KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2004. Helix lutescens Rossmässler, face sculpture of Succineidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: 1837 Œlimak ¿ó³tawy. In: G£OWACIÑSKI Z. (ed.). Polska Stylommatophora). Biol. Bull. Poznañ 32: 103–105. 4 Obituary

czerwona ksiêga zwierz¹t. Bezkrêgowce. PWRL Warsza- snails in forest site – relation to habitat conditions. Pol. J. wa, pp. 341–342. Ecol. 57: 377–388. B£OSZYK J., DYLEWSKA M., GO£DYN B., KONWERSKI SZ., KO- SZYBIAK K., B£OSZYK J., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., GO£DYN B. RALEWSKA-BATURA E., KUPCZYK M., LEŒNIEWSKA M., NA- 2009. Variation in spatial structure and abundance of PIERA£A A., ZIOMEK J. 2005. Œwiat zwierz¹t. In: GO£DYN clausillids (Mollusca: Clausiliidae) in the nature reserve R., JACKOWIAK B., B£OSZYK J. (eds). Walory przyrodnicze Dêbno nad Wart¹ (W. Poland) during wintering. J. doliny Cybiny i ich ochrona. Wyd. Kontekst, Poznañ, pp. Conch. 39: 611–620. 44–51. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E.,B£OSZYK J., NAPIERA£A A., LEŒNIEWSKA M., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., B£OSZYK J. 2005. GO£DYN B. 2010. Biodiversity of terrestrial malaco- Centipede communities in oak-hornbeam forests of dif- coenoses as a criterion in Assessment of conservation sta- ferent ages and exploitation in Wielkopolska (Poland). tus – the Cybina Valley, A proposed Natura 2000 area. Peckiana 4: 69–79. Folia Malacol. 18: 5–13. SZYBIAK K., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., GO£DYN B. 2005. KORALEWSKA-BATURA E.,B£OSZYK J., GO£DYN B., SZYBIAK K., Quantitative studies of terrestrial gastropods of the LESICKI A., NAPIERA£A A. 2010. Materials to the knowl- Drawa National Park. Folia Malacol. 13: 35–42. edge of molluscs of Wielkopolska. I. History and general LESICKI A., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E. 2007. Monacha remarks. Folia Malacol. 18: 15–28. cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: KORALEWSKA-BATURA E.,GO£DYN B., SZYBIAK K., B£OSZYK J. Hydromiidae) becomes more frequent in Poland. Folia 2010. Materials to the knowledge of molluscs of Malacol. 15: 181–184. Wielkopolska. II. Checklist. Folia Malacol. 18: 29–41. SZYBIAK K., B£OSZYK J., KORALEWSKA-BATURA E., GO£DYN B. 2009. Small-scale distribution of wintering terrestrial