Wandering outside of the Styx: Surface activity of an iconic subterranean vertebrate, the olm (Proteus anguinus)

Ecology. 2024 Mar;105(3):e4252. doi: 10.1002/ecy.4252. Epub 2024 Feb 8.

Authors

Raoul Manenti^{1

2}, Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola^{3

4}, Veronica Zampieri¹, Giorgio Grassi¹, Thomas Creanza¹, Edgardo Mauri⁵, Gentile Francesco Ficetola¹, Benedetta Barzaghi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
² Laboratorio di Biologia Sotterranea "Enrico Pezzoli", Parco Regionale del Monte Barro, Galbiate, Italy.
³ Unit of Dermatology, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Asociación Herpetológica Española, Leganés, Spain.
⁵ Speleovivarium "Erwin Pichl", Trieste, Italy.

PMID: 38329178
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4252

No abstract available

Keywords: cave; exploitation of new resources; interaction; new pattern; predator; spring.

MeSH terms

Animals
Proteidae*

Supplementary concepts

Proteus, salamanders