Common names:
Caboz-de-água-doce, Caboz-de-água-doce, Marachomba-de-água-doce
Occurrence:
native
Salinity:
freshwater
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Uses:
no uses
Comments:
Found in the Iberian Peninsula (Ref. 119049). Regularly caught when fish-collecting in the Guadiana basin (J.A. Gomes, pers. comm.) (Ref. 13612). Specimens collected in several tributaries of the Guadiana river are housed in the the National Museum of Natural History in Lisbon (Carlos Almaça, Museu Bocage, Lisboa, pers. comm.) (Ref. 13612).
Status of threat: Endangered (Ref. 119049).
National Checklist:
Portugal
Country Information:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/po.html
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Occurrences:
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Main Ref:
Almaça, C., 1995
National Database:
Portuguese Freshwater Fishes
Teleostei (teleosts) > Blenniiformes (Blennies) > Blenniidae (Combtooth blennies) > Blenniinae
Etymology: Salariopsis:The suffix -opsis, from the ancient Greek 'view, appearance', is added to the epithet "Salaria" to highlight its apparent, but misleading, morphological similarity to the blenniid genus Salaria Forsskål, 1775 (Ref. 128181).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology