Salaria Explained

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

Species

Following the marine/freshwater split, two species are recognized in this genus:

• Salaria basilisca (Valenciennes, 1836)
• Salaria pavo (A. Risso, 1810) (Peacock blenny)

Notes and References

1. I. Doadrio, S. . Perea . A. Yahyaoui . amp . 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 . 10.3989/graellsia.2011.v67.042 . free .
2. Vecchioni, L.. Ching, A. C.. Marrone, F.. Arculeo, M.. Hundt, P. J. . Simons, A. M. . amp . 2022 . Multi-Locus Phylogenetic Analyses of the Almadablennius Clade Reveals Inconsistencies with the Present Taxonomy of Blenniid Fishes. Diversity. 14. 1 . 53. 10.3390/d14010053. 10447/534247. free. free.
3. Antonio Di Natale . Murat Bilecenoglu . Michel Bariche . Can Bizsel . Enric Massuti . Jeffrey Williams . Matthew Craig . 3 . 2014 . Salaria pavo . 2014 . e.T185175A1776635 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T185175A1776635.en .