The extreme body sizes of megafishes associated with their high commercial values and
recreational interests have made them highly threatened in their native range worldwide by …

Fish introductions, particularly in areas of high biological diversity and endemism, represent
a major threat for biodiversity. In the Balkan Peninsula, 60 fish species have been …

This checklist aims to list all the reported Iranian inland fishes. It lists 297 species in 109
genera, 30 families, 24 orders and 3 classes reported from different Iranian basins …

The current status of the inland waters ichthyofauna of Turkey is revised, and an updated
checklist of the freshwater fishes is presented. A total of 368 fish species live in the inland …

This checklist aims to reviews and summarize the results of the systematic and
zoogeographical research on the Iranian inland ichthyofauna that has been carried out for …

The current paper presents the first effort to organize a comprehensive review of the Invasive
Alien Species (IAS) of Greece. For this purpose, a database was developed with fields of …

More than 270 Aquatic Alien Species (AAS) are reported from Greece. Besides the
introductions via the Suez Canal, the most important vectors of introduction are imports for …

Background The Balkans are a major worldwide biodiversity and endemism hotspot. Among
the freshwater biota, amphipods are known for their high cryptic diversity. However, little is …

This chapter focuses on the evolutionary importance and taxonomic distribution of
euryhalinity. Euryhalinity refers to broad halotolerance (capability of surviving in both …

Delineating biogeographical regions is a critical step towards the establishment and
evaluation of conservation priorities. In the present study, we analysed the distribution …