The Cyprus freshwater blenny (Salariopsis [Salaria] cf. fluviatilis) is the only known native freshwater-dwelling fish species ever documented from Cyprus. The species S. fluviatilis is relatively widespread across the Mediterranean thanks to its ancestral species being of marine origin, and following the end of the Messinian salinity crisis approximately 5 million years ago, they went […]
Following on from a decade of sampling across most of the island of Cyprus, in October 2022, the Freshwater Life Project team successfully completed stage 1 of their eDNA search to find the Cyprus freshwater blenny, a bottom-dwelling river species last seen in 1909, and determine if it still exists on the island. The first […]
Over the last five years or so as Freshwater Life Project has begun to implement our long term aim to assess the viability and initiate our program for re-introduction of Salaria fluviatilis to Cyprus, I’ve had a great deal of time to study and understand not only the implications of such a plan, but also about […]