Salaria

Short description: Genus of fishes

Salaria is a genus of fish in the family Blenniidae.^[1] It now contains marine species which are found around the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean.^[2] Freshwater species were reallocated to Salariopsis in 2022.^[3] One species, the peacock blenny, has colonised the northern Red Sea through the Suez Canal, a process knowns as anti-Lesspesian migration.^[4]

Species

Following the marine/freshwater split, two species are recognized in this genus:^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Salaria in FishBase. February 2013 version.
↑ I. Doadrio, S.; Perea; A. Yahyaoui (2011). "Morphological and molecular analyses of freshwater blennids: A new species of the genus Salaria Forsskål, 1775 (Actinopterygii, Blennidae) in Morocco". Graellsia 67 (2): 151–173. doi:10.3989/graellsia.2011.v67.042. http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/73814/1/339921.pdf.
↑ Vecchioni, L.; Ching, A. C.; Marrone, F.; Arculeo, M.; Hundt, P. J.; Simons, A. M. (2022). "Multi-Locus Phylogenetic Analyses of the Almadablennius Clade Reveals Inconsistencies with the Present Taxonomy of Blenniid Fishes". Diversity 14 (1): 53. doi:10.3390/d14010053.
↑ Antonio Di Natale; Murat Bilecenoglu; Michel Bariche et al. (2014). "Salaria pavo". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T185175A1776635. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T185175A1776635.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/185175/1776635.

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