I need to make some corrections, additions and remarks to the previous messages...
* My apologies Teresa, you were right it was my misunderstanding; after a new contact, Dr. Paragamian informed me that the number of the specialists worldwide is around 100 (approx 10 in Balkans), many americans among the best of them.
* Regarding the photo Dave Bunnell posted to this thread, with the strange thing growing from the floor of Rippled Cave, he told me that it's a root but it's impossible to identify it only from the photo.
* The correct e-mails for anyone interested to contact Dr. Paragamian are:
paragam@otenet.gr and
hisr@otenet.gr
* I forwarded the hewhocaves request for the scientific name ought to be given along with the common name and here is the response:
Lesser mouse-eared bat [Myotis blythii (Tomes, 1857)]
Distribution: Palaearctic; southern Europe and Asia east to the Himalayas
Schreiber’s bat [Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817)]
Distribution: present in most Old Worls tropical and subtropical regions, from southern Eurasia to Africa, Australia, and the Solomon Islands.
Mehely’s horseshoe bat [Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie, 1901]
Distribution: North Africa and southern Europe through Asia Minor to Transcaucasia and western Iran.
Troglobitic snail [Lindbergia pseudoillyrica Riedel, 1960]
Distribution: Crete Island (Greece)
Cave spider [Minotauria attemsi Kulczynski, 1903]
Distribution: Crete Island (Greece)
Scorpion [Euscorpius carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1763)]
Distribution: Africa (Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Tunisia), Asia (Turkey), Europe (Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, France, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain (including Baleares), Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia).
Long-legged cave cricket [Dolichopoda paraskevi Boudou-Saltet, 1973]
Distribution: Crete Island (Greece)
Cave cricket [Discoptila lindbergi Chopard, 1957]
Distribution: Crete Island (Greece)
Troglobitic milliped [Serradium sbordonii Strasser, 1976]
Distribution: Crete (Greece)
Troglobitic woodlouse [Schizidium perplexum (Vandel, 1958)]
Distribution: Crete (Greece)
Many-plumed moth Moth [Alucita hexadactyla Linnaeus, 1758]
Distribution: Almost worldwide