Spilaio Kryoneridas

Higher Geography
Region: Kriti,
Sub-Region: Chania,
Municipality: Apokoronas,
Closest Settlement: Vafes
Cave Synonyms
Crionerida cave
Cave type
Natural
Fauna
  • Neomyobia chiropteralis (Michael, 1884), Beron 1970
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Prostigmata / Family: Myobiidae
  • Neotrombicula creta Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1971, Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean 1971, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Trombiculidae
  • Neotrombicula rhinolophi Kolebinova, 1968, Kolebinova 1970, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Trombiculidae
  • Paraperiglischrus rhinolophinus (C.L. Koch, 1841), Beron 1970, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Mesostigmata / Family: Spinturnicidae
  • Porcellio dilatatus Brandt, 1833, Vandel 1968, Schmalfuss 1972b, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Porcellionidae
  • Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), Kolebinova 1970, Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean 1971, Benda et al. 2009, Beron 2016, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Rhinolophus hipposideros (André, 1797), Beron 1970, Kolebinova 1970, Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean 1971, Benda et al. 2009, Beron 2016, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Sasatrombicula bureschi Kolebinova & Beron, 1965, Kolebinova 1970, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Trombiculidae
  • Sasatrombicula cherrata (Taufflieb, 1960), Kolebinova 1970, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Trombiculidae
  • Sasatrombicula hexasternalae Vercammen-Grandjean, 1963, Kolebinova 1970, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Trombiculidae
  • Sasatrombicula mediterranea Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1971, Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean 1971, Beron 2016, Beron 2020
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Trombiculidae
  • Trichoniscus lindbergi Vandel, 1958, Vandel 1968, Schmalfuss 1972b, Schmalfuss 1979, Andreev 1986, Schmalfuss et al. 2004, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Trichoniscidae
Cave references
  • Faure, P. 1955. Grottes explorees en 1954 en Crete qui ne figurent pas au, bulletin de la S.S.G. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce Hellenic Speleological Society. 3:87-101.
  • Platakis, E. 1963. Caves of Apokoronas, Kriti. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 7:47–55.
Species references
  • Andreev, S. 1986. Contribution a l΄ étude des isopodes terrestres de la Grèce 3. Sur trois nouvelles donnes sur les Isopodes des Genres Cordioniscus, Alpioniscus et Trichoniscus et nouvelles donnes sur les Isopodes terr. (Oniscoidea). Biol. gallo-hellen., 11 (2): 153-164.
  • Benda, P., Georgiakakis, P., Dietz, C., Hanak, V., Galanaki, K., Markantonatou, V., Chudarkova, A., Hulva, P. & Horacek, I. 2009. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 7. The bat fauna of Crete, Greece. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 72 (3-4): 105-190.
  • Beron, P. 1970. Sur quelques Acariens (Myobiidae, Psorergatidae, Spinturnicidae, Sarcoptidae et Listrophoroidae) de Bulgarie et de l΄ ile de Crete. Bull. Inst. Zool. Mus. Sofia, 32: 143-149.
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Beron, P. 2020. Type specimens of Acari (Arachnida) in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. I. Acariformes (Acaridida and Prostigmata). Historia naturalis bulgarica 41: 1-11
  • Georgiakakis P, Kafkaletou Diez A, Salvarina I, Benda P, Billington G, Dietz C, Billington J, Cove D, Davison S, Cooke M, Papadatou E. 2023. The Bats of Greece: An Updated Review of Their Distribution, Ecology and Conservation. Animals. 2023; 13(15):2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13152529
  • Kolebinova, M. & Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. 1971. Two new species of larval Trombiculids from isle Crete, Neotrombicula creta n.sp. and Sasatrombicula mediterranea n. sp. (Acarina, Trombiculidae). C. r. Acad. bulg. Sci., 24 (1): 91-94.
  • Kolebinova, M. 1970. Larves des Trombiculidae (Acarina) de la Corse, des Pyrénées et de la Crète. Bull. Inst. Zool. Mus. Sofia, 32: 93-106.
  • Schmalfuss, H. 1972. Die Isopoden von Kreta. Biol. gallo-hellen., 4 (1): 33-60.
  • Schmalfuss, H. 1979. Revidierte Check-List der Landisopoden (Oniscoidea) Griechenlands. Stuttgart. Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A. (Biol.), 331: 1-42.
  • Schmalfuss, H., Paragamian, K. & Sfenthourakis, S. 2004. The terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) of Crete and the surrounding islands. Stuttgart. Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A. (Biol.), 662: 1-74.
  • Vandel, A. 1968. Description d΄ un nouveau représentant de genre Cordioniscus (Crustacés, Isopoda, Oniscoidea, Styloniscidae) suivie de considérations sur les voies de migration de certains lignées d΄ Isopodes terrestres. Ann. Speleol., 23 (3): 621-632.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Kryoneridas, Vafes, Apokoronas, Kriti. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 24.02.2020, Accessed 19.04.2026