Cave fauna of Albania, North Macedonia and Turkey

Outlined are the caves where cave fauna has been recorded in Albania (120 caves, 137 animal species), North Macedonia (55 caves, 152 animal species) and Turkey (ca. 150 caves, 426 animal species). The book also contains comparisons between the cave animals (mostly troglobites and stygobites) in the three countries and the dwellers of the caves of the neighbouring countries or regions. Maps of the distribution of the troglobites and the stygobites - in any one of the described countries - and bibliographies of the papers on these faunas (99 papers on Albanian, 94 on North Macedonian and 320 on Turkish cave fauna) are also included.

Petar Beron was born in Sofia, 1940. He worked at the Institute of Zoology and in the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was Director of the Museum from 1992 to 2005. He retired in 2010 and became Professor Emeritus and Doctor of Biological Sciences in 2019. He is a co-founder of the Bulgarian Federation of Speleology and he was President of the Federation from 1985 to 2017, after that Honorary President. He has explored many caves and high mountains in over 90 countries, including Albania, North Macedonia and Turkey. Author and co-author of many papers and books on the cave fauna, bats and their ectoparasites, zoology, zoogeography etc.

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Cave fauna of Albania

• Introduction
• The Biospeleological exploration of Albania
• Animals known from Albanian Caves
• Former Districts in Albania with caves containing known fauna
• Notes on the terrestrial cave animals of Albania
• Cave fauna of Albania and of the neighbouring countries
• References

Cave Fauna of the Republic of North Macedonia

• Karst and Caves in North Macedonia
• The exploration of the cave fauna of North Macedonia
• List of the known cave animals of North Macedonia
• List of caves with their fauna
• Zoogeographical notes on the terrestrial cave animals of North Macedonia
• Cave fauna of North Macedonia and of the neighbouring countries
• References
• Maps - troglobites and some troglophyles in the Republic of North Macedonia

Cave fauna of Turkey (Preliminary review)

• Karst and caves in Turkey
• The exploration of the cave fauna of Turkey
• List of the Cave Animals of Turkey
• List of caves with their fauna
• Zoogeographical notes on the terrestrial cave animals of Turkey
• References
• Distribution of the troglobites, stygobites and some troglophyles in Turkey

Index of the names higher than subgenus
Acknowledgements