ARANGADU CAVE

(Cheranmahadevi - IN)
8.750000,77.500000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What possibly consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark narrow chambers in unspecified rock (laterite?), which lies adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1), reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as the home and habitat of Salim Ali's fruit bat and edible nest swifts. SITUATION: In a certain Kothaiyar hill complex (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7) or, to be precise, at an unknown location somewhere in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in the southern part of the Western Ghats. CAVE LIFE: Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) is present in the so-called Arangadu Cave (VANITHARANI2005a: 7).What possibly consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark narrow chambers in unspecified rock (laterite?), which lies adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1), reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as the home and habitat of Salim Ali's fruit bat and edible nest swifts. SITUATION: In a certain Kothaiyar hill complex (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7) or, to be precise, at an unknown location somewhere in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in the southern part of the Western Ghats. CAVE LIFE: Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) is present in the so-called Arangadu Cave (VANITHARANI2005a: 7).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2002.09.09: One or several full fledged persons representing the Bat Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Sarah Tucker College, Tirunelveli collected specimens of Salim Ali's fruit bat in the Arangadu Cave (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0VELLIMALAI, Kalakad - Mundanthurai (Caves at)
0.0JAMBULINGAM KUGHAI
0.0NAGAPOTHIGAI CAVE
0.0AMBALAM CAVE
0.0PEEDAM CAVE
0.0VUDUMBUKAL CAVE
18.3INJIKULI, Pothigai Hills (Cave near)
20.2TIRUNELVELI WELL - TUNNEL
25.3SENGALTHERI CAVE