Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus, 1758)

Iglésias, Samuel P., Bergot, Patricia, Breton, Pascal, Brunelle, Stéphanie, Camusat, Mathieu, Causse, Romain, Charbonnel, Éric, Chevaldonné, Pierre, Cordier, Yves, Cosquer, Paul, Cuillandre, Jean-Pierre, Curd, Amelia, Dubas, Rémy, Duhau, Muriel, Derrien-Courtel, Sandrine, Devique, Gabriel, Dixneuf, Stéphane, Duhamel, Erwan, Farque, Pierre-André, Francour, Patrice, Fontana, Yann, Gamon, Adelaïde, Gicqueau, Charly, Goascoz, Nicolas, Hassani, Sami, Jadaud, Angélique, Kopp, Dorothée, Lamour, Laure, Bris, Sylvain Le, Lévèque, Laurent, Liger, Pablo, Lorance, Pascal, Louisy, Patrick, Maran, Vincent, Méhault, Sonia, Metral, Luisa, Morin-Repinçay, Alizée, Mouchel, Olivier, Pere, Anthony, Quéro, Jean-Claude, Renoult, Julien P., Roche, François, Schweyer, Livier, Spitz, Jérôme, Thiriet, Pierre & Thomas, Wilfried, 2020, French ichthyological records for 2018, Cybium 44 (4), pp. 285-307 : 289

Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus, 1758)

A Spiny butterfly ray, Gymnuridae ( Fig. 2C ), was captured by Mr Don Jacques Pompa on 23 Apr. 2018 on the fishing boat Quo Vadis II from Bastia with a trammel net. It was caught in front of the beach la Marana (Northeastern Corsica, France), at 42.6458°N, 9.4818°E, at 29 m depth. The specimen was released alive. The individual measured about 30 cm TL, 45 cm width and weighed about 3 kg. Recorded by A. Pere. This Vulnerable species ( Vooren et al., 2007) is uncommonly recorded in Corsica. The fishermen reported it was only the second time he had captured this species in 30 years of fishing; the first time was in 2015 or 2016 in the same location .

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Figure 2. – Significant French ichthyo- logical records for 2018. A: Hexanchus griseus,> 4 m TL, 3 Nov. 2018 (white arrow = full term aborted individual ~65 cm TL); B: Squatina squatina, 126 cm TL, 10 Mar. 2018; C: Gymnu- ra altavela, ~30 cm TL, 23 Apr. 2018, (photograph: Don Jacques Pompa); D: Acipenser sturio, 115 cm TL, 4 Jun. 2018 (photograph: Pierre Nicolas), E: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, ~60 cm TL, 9 Jun. 2018 (beached); F: Dalo- phis imberbis, ~40 cm TL, 3 Mar. 2018 (beached).