Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848)
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https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2019-433-008 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/797AB128-FFAD-FFFB-EAD4-F9DDFA895288 |
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Felipe |
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Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848) |
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Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848) View in CoL
A Blunthead puffer, Tetraodontidae ( Fig. 2S View Figure 2 ), was collected on 26 July 2017 by the fishing master Mr Youenn le Cloarec on the coastal bottom trawler Okleanos from Le Guilvinec. It was collected off western archipelago îles de Glénan (Southern Brittany, Bay of Biscay, France), at about 47.60°N, – 04.15°W, at 90 m depth. The fresh specimen, an adult female, measured 303 mm TL, 295 mm FL, 262 mm GoogleMaps
SL, and the head was 92 mm long. Its weight was 830 g, the ovaries 7.42 g, the liver 66.6 g, the stomach content 91.6 g, which included pieces of two undetermined bony fishes and pieces of a squat lobster Munida rugosa (Fabricius, 1775) . The specimen was taxidermized with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2019-0093 and the skeleton preserved. A tissue sample was recorded under No. BPS-3989. Recorded by NG. The present specimen is a new record for the French waters and for the Bay of Biscay where the species is uncommonly recorded and where a northern migration was evidenced by Quéro et al. (1998) in the last decades. This non-native species in the European Atlantic waters, with a circumglobal distribution in tropical and others temperate seas, can now be considered established in the Bay of Biscay.
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