Deo, Shekhabad - Cijan (Ghar)

Various descriptions

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A small, humid and twilight-lit cave (note 1) or rock shelter (about 4 or 5 m wide, 5 m long and 1.7 m high) with a floor covered with soil and droppings of goat and sheep. SITUATION: Near Cheikhabad (note 2) and about 6 km west of Dag Baghri (note 3) at a place called Cijan (note 4). The cave entrance itself lies in a limestone outcrop at the foot of a spur of a hill (in French: Kouh-Ladou = Koh Ladu?), and on the right bank of a torrent (dry streambed? without known name). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 116) lists Chilopoda, Diptera (Sciaridae), Pseudoscorpionida, Arachnida (Araneida). According to JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1745) yielded Grotte de Cheikhabad, Tchidjan snails identified by OMODEO (1959? or 1962?) as Eiseniella tetraedra f. typica SAVIGNY (Oligochaeta: Lumbrichidae).