Fauna of Greece | |
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![]() Greece. Location. | |
Continent |
Europe |
Realm(s) |
Palearctic |
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx) |
Phalangiidae; Nemastomatidae; Trogulidae; Sclerosomatidae |
Diversity (Project WCO) |
83 species (41 endemic) |
Balkans |
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia |
Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2,918 metres.
Greece has the 27th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 80 species recorded.
This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from Greece, repositories of Greek Opiliones and authors who worked on Greek opilionofauna.
Checklists[]
Pavesi 1878 [1].
References[]
- ↑ Pavesi, P. (1878a) Nuovi risultati aracnologici delle Crociere del "Violante". Aggiunto un catalogo sistematico degli Aracnidi di Grecia. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, 11, 337–396.
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