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Chris Englezou

Rivers of an Older Cyprus: Wetlands, Stone, and the Lost Possibility of Freshwater Pearl Mussels

1. An Island Before Aridity To imagine Cyprus in antiquity requires setting aside the modern image of a dry island shaped by seasonal torrents, empty riverbeds, and fragmented wetlands. In earlier climatic phases, Cyprus was a more humid and hydrologically coherent landscape. Rainfall was more reliable, groundwater tables higher, and

30th December 2025 No Comments

Biotope

Biotopes of Hong Kong | Hill Stream Habitats | Blue Neon Stiphodon

Hill stream habitats in Hong Kong are home to some of the most endearing and enigmatic fishes on Earth. These oxygen-rich, cool mountain streams or often, torrential rivers, provide crucial habitat, not only for exclusively freshwater dwelling species, but also form important migratory routes and nurseries for anadromous, amphidromous and

21st November 2020 1 Comment

Biotope

Biotopes of Spain| The biotope of the Samaruc and the Fartet

The family Cyprinodontidae, widely distributed in Africa and America, has only three representations in the Iberian fauna, namely, Valencia Hispanica (Valenciennes, 1826) or “Samaruc”, Aphanius Iberus (Valenciennes, 1846) or “Fartet” and finally the Aphanius baeticus (Doadrios, Carmona & Fernández-Delgado, 2002) or “Salinete”; in this article we will focus ourselves on

23rd December 2018 No Comments

Biotope

Biotope Aquarium 101: An authentic Western Ghats biotope for the endangered Zebra Loach

Koyna River is one of the five Indian rivers which find their source at the Pachaganga Temple in Mahabaleshwar within the Sahyadri mountain range (also known as the Western Ghats); they’re also home to one of India’s few evergreen forests. This range forms a barrier to the Deccan Plateau for the

31st March 2017 4 Comments

Chris Englezou

Current status of the Mediterranean Killifish (Aphanius fasciatus) in Malta | A Complex Conservation Question

Between the 21st-26th March 2017 I had the opportunity to visit each of five known localities for the Mediterranean Killifish Aphanius fasciatus on the island of Malta. The Killifish is locally known as “Buzaqq” and has historically inhabited brackish to hypersaline habitats at Marsa, Marsaxlokk, Marsaskala, Salini and Għadira. Salini The

30th March 2017 5 Comments

Biotope

The birth of the wild aquarium | a tool for conservation

Almost five years ago, artist and river explorer Ivan Mikolji uploaded a video to the infamous video sharing site Youtube which would change the direction of the aquarium hobby forever, sparking a new wave of interest in nature and natural aquarium fishkeeping. To an outsider, a non-fish-keeper, the “Wild Aquarium”

26th March 2017 1 Comment

Chris Englezou

An Endangered Freshwater Crab in Malta | Potamon fluviatile lanfrancoi

Potamon fluviatile lanfrancoi is definitely not the short name for the Maltese freshwater crab. In Maltese language it is referred to as Qabru and was originally described from seven localities across Malta and Gozo islands by D. Capolongo and J. L. Cilia in 1990. Ten years later the subspecies status

8th March 2017 1 Comment

Biotope

First underwater footage of the Cyprus Killifish

The first underwater footage showing the underwater biotope of the Cypriot Killifish, Aphanius cf. fasciatus from Akrotiri Coastal Lagoons in Cyprus.

23rd March 2015 2 Comments

Conservation

The history of Salaria fluviatilis in Cyprus

Roland L. N. Michell was a British National who lived on the island of Cyprus periodically in the early 1900’s, he was not an ichthyologist nor was he a naturalist, his interest was mainly in ethnography but yet he must have been somewhat enamoured with the wildlife of Cyprus because

20th March 2015 No Comments

Biotope

Biodiversity of the Kryos River, Cyprus

It was 05/08/2012 and our first stop location on the way to our destination was the Kouris Dam, it is situated at approximately 250m above sea level and is fed by three tributaries, the rivers Kouris, Limnatis and Kryos, the latter of which was of particular interest this day; water

14th March 2015 No Comments

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Category: Conservation

Rivers of an Older Cyprus: Wetlands, Stone, and the Lost Possibility of Freshwater Pearl Mussels

Biotopes of Hong Kong | Hill Stream Habitats | Blue Neon Stiphodon

Biotopes of Spain| The biotope of the Samaruc and the Fartet

Biotope Aquarium 101: An authentic Western Ghats biotope for the endangered Zebra Loach

Current status of the Mediterranean Killifish (Aphanius fasciatus) in Malta | A Complex Conservation Question

The birth of the wild aquarium | a tool for conservation

An Endangered Freshwater Crab in Malta | Potamon fluviatile lanfrancoi

First underwater footage of the Cyprus Killifish

The history of Salaria fluviatilis in Cyprus

Biodiversity of the Kryos River, Cyprus