# Sarma Cave

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**Sarma Cave** (Georgian: *სარმის მღვიმე*), located in the [Gagra District](/source/Gagra_District) of [Abkhazia](/source/Abkhazia),[note 1] a breakaway region of [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(country)), is the [third-deepest recorded cave in the world](/source/List_of_deepest_caves). Its depth (1830 m) was measured in 2012 by a team led by Pavel Rudko.[2]

The cave was discovered in 1990 by caver Sergey Shipitsin during a research expedition of the Arabika caving club from [Irkutsk](/source/Irkutsk), led by Alexander Osintsev.

## Fauna

Two species of stygobiont amphipods have been found: *Zenkevitchia sandroruffoi*,[3] living at depths of no more than -350 m and found in other caves of eastern [Arabika Massif](/source/Arabika_Massif), in Troika Cave (at -30 m) and in Eagle's Nest Cave (-75 m); and *Adaugammarus pilosus*,[4] inhabiting aquatic biotopes in the deep part of the cave (elevations -1270 m and -1700 m).[5]

## See also

- [List of caves](/source/List_of_caves)
- [Speleology](/source/Speleology)
- [List of deepest caves](/source/List_of_deepest_caves)

## Notes

## References

1. ["Great Caves of the World"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140512230814/http://www.speologie.org/caves). Portalul Speologilor din Romania. Archived from [the original](http://www.speologie.org/caves) on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

1. Klimchouk, Alexander (28 Aug 2012). ["The second deepest cave in the World became deeper"](http://www.speleogenesis.info/news/?id=216). Speleogenesis. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

1. [*Zenkevitchia sandroruffoi*](https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/nauplius/media/copepedia/taxa/T4031336/) COPEPEDIA

1. [*Adaugammarus pilosus*](https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/nauplius/media/copepedia/taxa/T4026506/) COPEPEDIA

1. Sidorov, Dmitry A.; Gontcharov, Andrey A.; Sharina, Svetlana N. (2015-12-24). ["A new genus and two new species of cavernicolous amphipods (Crustacea: Typhlogammaridae) from the Western Caucasus"](https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/290). *European Journal of Taxonomy*. '***(168). [doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.168](https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.168). [ISSN 2118-9773](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2118-9773)***

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