Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810

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 : 292

Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810

A Luvar, Luvaridae ( Fig. 4B ), was collected on 18 Jun. 2018 by the fisherman Mr Martial Hascoet on the commercial gillnetter Outsider from Morlaix, with a hook at the surface after colliding with the screw propeller. It was collected in the English Channel off Porznéjen (Finistère, France), at 48.6870°N, – 4.1972°W. The specimen measured about 140 cm TL and weighed 86 kg. The specimen was landed at the Roscoff fish auction market but was taken out of sale by the person in charge of the fishmarket because the species was unknown. Recorded by P. Bergot. This species is uncommonly recorded in European Atlantic waters ( Quéro et al., 1992, 2007b; Quigley, 2004).

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Figure 4. – Significant French ichthyological records for 2018 (continued). A: Regalecus glesne, ~160 cm TL, 5 Apr. 2018 (reversed photograph); B: Luvarus imperialis, 140 cm TL, 18 Jun. 2018 (Photograph: Martial Hascoet); C: Raniceps raninus, ~16+ cm TL, 24 Jun. 2018; D: Raniceps raninus, ~30 cm TL, 10 Aug. 2018; E: Trigla lyra, 295 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-093; F: Lepidotrigla dieuzeidei, 125 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018; G: Micrenophrys lilljeborgi, 36 mm TL, 30 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0094; H: Howella atlantica, 111 mm TL, 27 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0095; I: Pomatomus saltatrix, 41 cm TL, 20 Nov. 2018; J: Serranus cabrilla, ~25 cm TL, 12 Feb. 2018.