“…Studies assessing thermal tolerance in fishes and other aquatic ectotherms have been conducted using freshwater (FW)-acclimated (Barrionuevo and Femandes, 1995;Currie et al, 1998;Elliott and Elliott, 1995;Zaragoza et al, 2008;Zhang and Kieffer, 2014) or SW-acclimated animals (Fangue et al, 2006;Healy and Schulte, 2012a,b;Madeira et al, 2013;Murchie et al, 2011;Tsuchida, 1995), or using comparisons between FW-and SW-acclimated animals (Metzger et al, 2016). However, whether salinity affects thermal tolerance remains inconclusive, varying between species and studies, with some studies reporting an effect of salinity on thermal tolerance (Chen and Chen, 1999;Cheng et al, 2013;Everatt et al, 2013;Jian et al, 2003;Metzger et al, 2016;Sardella et al, 2008a,b), and others reporting no effect at all (Re et al, 2006(Re et al, , 2012Haney and Walsh, 2003). Even among studies reporting an effect of salinity on thermal tolerance, there appears to be no consistency in how thermal tolerance is associated with salinity.…”