Leptostomias gladiator (Zugmayer, 1911)

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 : 291

Leptostomias gladiator (Zugmayer, 1911)

A Scaleless dragonfish, Stomiidae ( Fig. 3H ), was collect- ed on 26 Oct. 2018 during the EVHOE survey, using a pelagic trawl. It was collected at Station W0562 (Southern Bay of Biscay, France), at 43.6455 / 43.6608 N, –2.1769 / -2.2636 °W, at up to about 710 m depth above a 1290-1370 m deep continental slope. The fresh specimen measured 399 mm TL, 390 mm FL, 384 mm SL, 48 mm HL and weighed 199 g; D: 19, A: 24, V: 7, P: 11. The specimen was preserved with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2020-0089 and a tissue samples was preserved under No. BPS-4246. Recorded by J. Spitz and S.P. Iglésias. A specimen was collected by the R/V Thalassa at Station U78, on 19 Apr. 1968, off shore the southern Portugal, at 35.983°N, – 9.417°W, at 1060 m depth over bottom at 1540-2300 m depth. The present species is a first record for the French waters and it is an addition to the Checklist of the marine fishes from metropolitan France ( Béarez et al., 2017).

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Figure 3. – Significant French ichthyological records for 2018 (continued). A: Nemichthys curvirostris, 673 mm TL, 1 Jun. 2018, body (up), head (down), MNHN-IC 2020-0082; B: Eurypharynx pelecanoides, 491 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0083 (head); C: Maulisia mauli, 153 mm TL, 21 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0084; D: Maulisia microlepis, 271 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020- 0085; E: Sagamichthys schnakenbecki, 27 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0086 (ventral view); F: Melanostomias bartonbeani, 272 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0087; G: Astronesthes niger, 186 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0088; H: Leptostomias gladiator, 399 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0089; I: Chlorophthalmus agassizi, 167 mm TL, 23 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0090; J: Magnisudis atlantica, 312 mm TL, 23 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0091; K: Evermannella balbo, 126 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0092.