Abstract
Amphibians and reptiles in the caves of the Greater Caucasus
Highlights
The present study is the first review of the herpetofauna of the Greater Caucasian caves
The Zoological Museum of Moscow University holds a specimen of O. ophryticus (No1230) from a nameless karsthole on the Bzyb Mountain Range in Abkhazia (Tuniyev et al, 1987; Tuniyev & Tuniyev, 2006b)
The primary research was done in the West Caucasus: in 24 caves of Abkhazia and 36 caves of Russia, including 31 in the city of Sochi vicinities (Sochi National Park) and two caves in Karachay-Cherkessia
Summary
The present study is the first review of the herpetofauna of the Greater Caucasian caves. As far as the adjacent territories are concerned, a detailed survey of the cave herpetofauna has been published only for the Crimea, where four species of amphibians and eight species of reptiles were recorded (Turbanov et al, 2015, 2019; Kukushkin et al, 2017). Several scattered records of amphibians and reptiles from the caves of the Greater Caucasus have been noted. The find of Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827 was noted from Samshitovaya Cave in Abkhazia (Tuniyev, 2017)
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