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Fauna
Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837), Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
Myotis emarginatus (Geoffroy, 1806), Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
Myotis myotis (Borkhausen, 1797), Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
Nyctalus leisleri (Kuhl, 1817), Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825), Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1866, Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus euryale Blasius, 1853, Hanak et al. 2001, Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Beron 2016, Benda et al. 2019, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), Hanak et al. 2001, Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Beron 2016, Benda et al. 2019, Uhrin et al. 2020, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus hipposideros (André, 1797), Hanak et al. 2001, Papadatou et al. 2011, Papadatou et al. 2012, Uhrin et al. 2020, Georgiakakis et al. 2023 Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
Species references
Benda, P., Ševčík, M., Bego, F., Sachanowicz, K., Spitzenberger, F., Tájek, P., Tájková, P., Uhrin, M. 2019. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 15. The fauna of bats and bat ectoparasites of Albania with a catalogue of bats from the western Balkans in the collection of the National Museum, Prague. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 83: 1–238
Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
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
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.
Papadatou, E., Grémillet, X. & Bego, F. 2011. Status survey and conservation action plan for the bats of Prespa. Society for the Protection of Prespa (SPP), Agios Germanos. pp. 170.
Papadatou E., Grémillet X., Bego F. 2012. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Caves and Bats of Prespa. Final report in the framework of the project “Landscape Scale Conservation in the Prespa Lake Basin – Transboundary Species and Habitat Conservation Action Plans.”, pp 54
Uhrin M, Balogova M, Uhrinova R, Vargova V. 2020. Bats of the Prespa Basin in northern Greece: acoustic survey, new records and relationships to light pollution (Chiroptera).. Lynx, n. s. (Praha) 51:147–191
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2025. Fauna of the cave
Spilaio Zachariadi, Pyli, Prespes, Dytiki Makedonia. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis.
Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research.
Cave data updated 14.12.2023,
Accessed 18.10.2025