Spilaio Lavyrinthos Gortynas

Higher Geography
Region: Kriti,
Sub-Region: Irakleio,
Municipality: Faistos,
Closest Settlement: Roufas
Cave type
Artificial
Fauna
  • Acanthopetalum minotauri (Attems, 1902), Attems 1902, Verhoeff 1929, Wolf 1937b, Wolf 1938, Stoev et al. 2008
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Callipodida / Family: Schizopetalidae
  • Bathytropa granulata Aubert & Dollfus, 1890, Verhoeff 1929, Strouhal 1937, Schmalfuss 1972b, Schmalfuss 1979, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Bathytropidae
  • Cryptops anomalans Newport, 1844, Attems 1902, Zapparoli 2002
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Chilopoda / Order: Scolopendromorpha / Family: Cryptopidae
  • Hoplopholcus labyrinthi (Kulczynski, 1903), Kulczynski 1903, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Bosmans et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Huber 2020
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Pholcidae
  • Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817), Raulin 1869a, Bate 1905, Pohle 1953, Van Laar & Daan 1964, Ondrias 1965, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1977, Hanak et al. 2001, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Miniopteridae
  • Minotauria attemsi Kulczynski, 1903, Kulczynski 1903, Brignoli 1979a, Deeleman-Reinhold 1993, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Bosmans et al. 2013, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Dysderidae
  • Myotis blythii (Tomes, 1857), Bate 1905, Wettstein 1941, Kahmann 1959, Van Laar & Daan 1964, Ondrias 1965, Hanak et al. 2001, Benda et al. 2009, Beron 2016, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Myotis myotis (Borkhausen, 1797), Bate 1905, Wettstein 1941, Van Laar & Daan 1964, Hanak et al. 2001, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1977, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki 1979, Iliopoulou-Georgudaki & Ondrias 1986, Hanak et al. 2001, Benda et al. 2009, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Rhinolophus hipposideros (André, 1797), Benda et al. 2009, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
Cave references
  • Fournier, M. 1994. Le labyrinthe de Crete. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 21:430–448.
  • Petrocheilou, A. 1989. The cave “Lavyrinthos” of Gortyna Irakleiou, Kriti (CRNr 45). Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 19:160–165.
  • Petrocheilou, A. 1984. The Greek Caves. Ekdotiki Athinon 160pp.
Species references
  • Attems, C. 1902. Myriapoden von Kreta, nebst Beiträgen zur allgemeinen Kenntnis einiger Gattungen. Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl. Abt. I, 111 (1): 527-614.
  • Bate, D. 1905. On the mammals of Crete. Proc. zool. soc. London, 2: 315-323.
  • 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. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
  • 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. Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Rev. suisse Zool., 86 (1): 181-202.
  • Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. 1993. The genus Rhode and the harpacteine genera Stalagtia, Folkia, Minotauria and Kaemis (Araneae, Dysderidae) of Yugoslavia and Crete, with remarks on the genus Harpactea. Rev. Arachnol., 10 (6): 105-135.
  • 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.
  • Huber B.A. 2020. Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726:1–94.
  • 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. 1979. A record of Myotis blythi omari (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from Crete, Greece. Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 30 (1/2): 22-26.
  • Kahmann, H. 1959. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fledermaeus-Fauna auf der Insel Kreta. Säugetierk. Mitt., 7: 153-156.
  • Kulczynski, W. 1903. Aranearum et Opilionum species in insula Creta a Comite Dre Carolo Attems collectae. Bull. Int. Acad. Sci. Lett. Cracovie: 32-58.
  • Ondrias, J. C. 1965. Die Säugetiere Griechenlands. Säugetierk. Mitt., 13 (3): 109-127.
  • Pohle, H. 1953. Über Fledertiere von Kreta. In Zimmermann, K.;von Wettstein, O.;Siewert, H.;Pohle, H. Die Wildsäuger von Kreta. Publisher. pp. 14-20.
  • Raulin, V. 1869. Description physique de l’ile de Crète. Tome second. Arthus Bertrand., Paris. pp. 463-1078.
  • 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.
  • Stoev, P., Sierwald, P. & Billey, A. 2008. An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda).. Zootaxa, 1706:1–50.
  • Strouhal, H. 1937. Isopoda terrestria Aegaei. (10. Beitrag zur Landisopodenfauna des Balkans). Acta Inst. Mus. Zool. Univ. Atheniensis, 1 (9/10): 193-262.
  • Van Laar, V. & Daan, S. 1964. On some Chiroptera from Greece. Beaufortia, 120 (10): 158-166.
  • Verhoeff, K. W. 1929. Eine neue Diplopoden und eine neue Isopoden Gattung aus dem Labyrinth Kretas. Mittel. Höhl. Karstf., 4: 113-123.
  • Wettstein, O. V. 1941. Die Saeugerwelt der Aegaeis, nebst einer Revision des Rassenkreises von Erinaceus europaeus. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 52: 245-278.
  • Wolf, B. 1937. Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus. II. - Cavernarum Catalogus. Junk Verl., Wien (1934-1937). pp. 616.
  • Wolf, B. 1938. Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus. III. - Animalium Catalogus. Junk Verl., Wien (1934-1938). pp. 918.
  • Zapparoli, M. 2002. A catalogue of the centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragm. Entomol., 34 (1): 1-146.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Lavyrinthos Gortynas, Roufas, Faistos, Kriti. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 03.11.2018, Accessed 09.03.2026