Spilaio Agias Eleousas

Higher Geography
Region: Peloponnisos,
Sub-Region: Arkadia,
Municipality: Voreia Kynouria,
Closest Settlement: Nea Chora
Cave type
Natural
Fauna
  • Myotis emarginatus (Geoffroy, 1806), Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1977, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1983b, Hanak et al. 2001, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774), Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1977, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1983b, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1985, Hanak et al. 2001, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1977, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1983b, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki & Ondrias 1986, Hanak et al. 2001, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Hanak, V., Benda, P., Ruedi, M., Homcek, I. & Sofianidou, T. 2001. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part 2. New records and review of distribution of bats in Greece. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 65: 279-346.
  • Iliopoulou-Georgudaki, J. & Ondrias, J. C. 1986. The greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), in Greece, with description of a new subspecies. Occasional Papers, the Museum Texas Tech University., 102: 1-8.
  • Iliopoulou-Georgudaki, J. 1977. Taxonomic study and geographical distribution of Chiroptera in Greece. PhD. Thesis. Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Patra, Patra, 173 pp (in Greek)
  • Iliopoulou-Georgudaki, J. 1983. Bats parasites and their relations to human health. Proceedings of the International Meeting on the show caves and their problems. Publisher, Athens, September 1-3, 1983. pp. 237-243.
  • Iliopoulou-Georgudaki, J. 1985. New records of the occurrence of the genus Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Greece. Mammalia, 49 (1): 131-133.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Agias Eleousas, Nea Chora, Voreia Kynouria, Peloponnisos. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 31.01.2018, Accessed 19.04.2026