Spilaio Mylou Katsouridi

Higher Geography
Region: Kriti,
Sub-Region: Rethymno,
Municipality: Mylopotamos,
Closest Settlement: Angeliana
Cave type
Natural
Fauna
  • Eucyclops serrulatus (Fischer, 1851), Gasparo 2011a
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Hexanauplia / Order: Cyclopoida / Family: Cyclopidae
  • Evarcha arcuata (Clerck, 1757), Roewer 1959, Brignoli 1979b, Bosmans et al. 2013
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Salticidae
  • Megasternum boletophagum (Marsham, 1802), Coiffait 1955, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Hydrophylidae
  • Niphargus sp., Gasparo 2011a, Zettler & Zettler 2017
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Amphipoda / Family: Niphargidae
  • Pilocamptus pilosus (Douwe, 1910), Gasparo 2011a
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Hexanauplia / Order: Harpacticoida / Family: Canthocamptidae
  • Proasellus sp., Gasparo 2011a
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Asellidae
  • Simplogonopus rubellus (Attems, 1902), Lang 1964, Beron 2016, Vagalinski et al. 2019
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Polydesmida / Family: Trichopolydesmidae
Cave references
  • Lindberg, K. 1955. Notes sur le grottes de l΄ île de Crète. Fragm. balc. Skopje 1(19):165-174.
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Kronestedt, T., Alderweireldt, M., Bosselaers, J. & De Koninck, H. 2013. Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek Island of Crete. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 28 (1): 1-147.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Considérations zoogéographiques sur les Araignées cavernicoles de Grèce. Biol. gallo-hellen., 8: 223-236.
  • Coiffait, H. 1955. Sur quelques Coléoptères cavernicoles de Grèce. Notes Biospeol., 10 (2): 205-209.
  • Gasparo, F. 2011. Ricerche biospeleologiche a Creta 2008-2010. Progressione, 57 (1/2): 137-143.
  • Lang, J. 1964. Diplopoden aus Griechenland, Kreta, der Türkei und Iran aus dem Sammlungen von Dr. K. Lindberg. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohemoslov., 28 (3): 237-246.
  • Roewer, C. F. 1959. Die Araneae, Solifuga und Opiliones der Sammlungen des Herrn Dr. K. Lindberg aus Griechenland, Creta, Anatolien, Iran und Indien. Göteborgs kungl. vet. vitterh. Samh. Handl., 8 (4): 3-47.
  • Vagalinski B, Golovatch SI, Akkari N, Stoev P. 2019. Simplogonopus rubellus (Attems, 1902) gen. n., comb. n. (Diplopoda : Polydesmida : Trichopolydesmidae): Revealing the Identity of an Enigmatic Eastern-Mediterranean Millipede. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71(3):325–334
  • Zettler, M., Zettler, A. 2017. A new species of Niphargus (Amphipoda, Niphargidae) from Crete (Greece). Crustaceana 90:1415–1426.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Mylou Katsouridi, Angeliana, Mylopotamos, Kriti. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 04.07.2018, Accessed 19.04.2026