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Source of the Cave Shell

 

Source of the Cave Shell from Ciril Mlinar on Vimeo.

Ultraviolet Video from Ciril Mlinar on Vimeo.

Source of the Cave Shell is the name of a newly discovered water cave – a source near the Krupa river. Martin Ilenič dug his way into the source on 31 October 2010. The cave was registered by Andrej Hudoklin who borrowed the name from the cave shell congeria whose shells he found at the entrance. To confirm the habitat of the cave shell and to find live specimens Martin Ilenič and Branko Jalžić sank into the source on 14 October under the watchful eye of the experts from the Department of Biology of the Biotechnical Faculty and the Natural Heritage Protection Institute of the RS. On the very same day we filmed the cave shells in the mentioned source.

Congeria and Marifugia: