Spilaio Agiou Thoma

Higher Geography

Region: Peloponnisos,
Sub-Region: Messinia,
Municipality: Dytiki Mani,
Closest Settlement: Agios Nikolaos

Cave type

Natural

Fauna

• Eucyclops serrulatus (Fischer, 1851), Lindberg 1953a, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Hexanauplia / Order: Cyclopoida / Family: Cyclopidae
• Salentinella angelieri Ruffo & Delamare-Deboutteville, 1952, Ruffo 1953, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Amphipoda / Family: Salentinellidae

Cave references

• Lindberg ,K. 1955. Notes sur le grottes de la Grèce. Acta Mus. Macedonici Sci. Nat. 3(2):41-69.
• Petrocheilos, I. 1953. Speleological researches at Mani. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 2:9–25.

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Lindberg, K. 1953. Cyclopides (Crustacés Copépodes) de la Grèce. Prak. hellen. hydrobiol. Inst., 6 (2): 19-40.
• Ruffo, S. 1953. Nuove osservazioni sul genere Salentinella Ruffo (Amphipoda Gammaridae). Boll. Soc. Entom. It., 83: 56-66.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Agiou Thoma, Agios Nikolaos, Dytiki Mani, 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 18.04.2026