Tham Phra Phutthabat Pang Daeng - CM0171
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Location
The monk's campsite is 7 km east of Ban Chiang Dao in the village of Ban Pang Daeng. The cave is in the isolated limestone hill near the school.
Description
The cave is not much more than an enlarged rock shelter. In 2009 the cave was described as just being an entrance porch has a Buddha statue with a way on to the left. In March 2012 a huge temple was being built over the entrance and a lot of fill had been removed from the rock shelter. This work was ongoing in 2016, but by 2019 the monk appears to have been evicted, but the unfinished building remained. In 2019 the cave had been excavated to a second entrance on up on the left, which also had the start of a building over it. Tournier reports that there is also a shaft nearby, about 20 m deep, with a continuation, but it has not been descended.
Fauna
Cyrtodactylus dumnuii Bauer, Kunya, Sumontha, Niyomwan, Pauwels, Chanhome et Kunya, 2010 (Chordata, Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae) (unpublished record) Eonycteris spelaea (Dobson, 1871) (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) (Soisook 2008) Rhinolophus coelophyllus Peters, 1867 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) (Ith et al. 2011) Rhinolophus malayanus Bonhote, 1903 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) (Soisook et al. 2008) Rhinolophus pusillus lakkhanae Yoshiyuki, 1990 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) (Soisook 2008) Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth, 1853 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Hipposideridae) (Douangboubpha et al. 2010) Hipposideros halophyllus Hill & Yenbutra, 1984 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Hipposideridae) (Douangboubpha et al. 2010)
Documents
Bibliography 01/07/2019- +DEJTARADOL, ARIYA (2009) "A Taxonomic Review of Rhinolophus pusillus and Rhinolophus lepidus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in Thailand" MSc thesis, Prince of Songkla University 121pp +ITH, SAVENG; SOISOOK, PIPAT; BUMRUNGSRI, SARA; KINGSTON, TIGGA; PUECHMAILLE, SEBASTIEN J.; STRUEBIG, MATTHEW J.; BU, SI SI HLA; THONG, VU DINH; FUREY, NEIL M.; THOMAS, NIKKY M.; BATES, J.J. (2011) "A Taxonomic Review of Rhinolophus coelophyllus Peters, 1867 and R. shameli Tate, 1943 (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in Continental Southeast Asia" Acta Chiropterologica Vol. 13 No. 1 pp41-59 +PARMA, CHRISTIAN (1987a) "Chiang Dao" Taternik Vol. 63 No. 1 pp34-35 (Polish) +PARMA, CHRISTIAN; ROJEK, TADEUSZ (1987) Unpublished notes on 1987 Polish expedition (Polish) +PARMA, CHRISTIAN (1988) "Expedition Polonaise Chiang Dao '87" Spelunca No. 30 p9 (French) +SOISOOK, PIPAT (2008) "A Taxonomic Review of Rhinolophus malayanus Bonhote, 1903 and Rhinolophus stheno Andersen, 1905 (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in Thailand" Thesis for MSc in Ecology, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 117pp +SOISOOK, PIPAT; BUMRUNGSRI, SARA; SATASOOK, CHUTAMAS; THONG, VU DINH; BU, SI SI HLA; HARRISON, DAVID L.; BATES, PAUL J.J. (2008) "A taxonomic review of Rhinolophus stheno and R. malayanus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from continental Southeast Asia: an evaluation of echolocation call frequency in discriminating between cryptic species" Acta Chiropterologica Vol. 10 No. 2 pp221-242 +TOURNIER, THIERRY (2009) ôThai 2008/09ö www.blog4ever.com/blogfichiers/156233/fics/1562330… 26pp
Histoire
2012-03-05 M. Ellis, P. Collett, S. Hall 2016-05-30 I. Dugdale 2019-03-15 M. Ellis
Cavités proche
| Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | Cave CM0309 | ||
| 0.3 | Tham Pha Bart Maejon [CM0266] | 30 | 0 |
| 0.6 | Cave PL36 [ CM0235] | 250 | 15 |
| 4.3 | Tham Huai I Ko [Cave PL35] [Tham Hueykoh] [CM0234] | 861 | 47 |
| 4.4 | Tham Wai Nam Lin - CM0149 | 180 | 0 |
| 5.3 | Tham Aley - CM0044 | 150 | 0 |
| 5.8 | Cave PHD14 [Grotte a Gaz] [CM0043] | 200 | 2 |
| 6.0 | Cave CM0298 [The Mammoth Cave] | ||
| 10.5 | Tham Suwan Khuha [CM0103] | 50 | 0 |