Stenohaline
Carassius auratus
) are an example of a well known freshwater stenohaline fish.Stenohaline describes an organism, usually
haddock
, are also stenohaline and die in water with lower salinity.
Alternatively, fish living in coastal
tide pools are often euryhaline (tolerant to changes in salinity), as are many species which have life cycle requiring tolerance to both fresh water and seawater environments such as salmon and herring
.
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