Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843)

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 : 302

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843)

An Escolar, Gempylidae ( Fig. 8G ), was landed on 4 Oct. 2018 in the fishmarket of Le Guilvinec by a fishing boat tar- geting tuna. This large individual, ~ 1.5-2 m TL, may have been collected off Brittany. Recorded by S. Hassani and P. Bergot. At least three individuals of Escolar were previously recorded in the Bay of Biscay ( Quéro et al., 1992, 1999; De Casamajor and Morandeau, 2013; Iglésias et al., 2019), consequently the species can now be considered established in the Bay of Biscay. The poleward expansion of this tropical to temperate benthopelagic species in French Atlantic waters may be related to warming waters as a consequence of climate change.

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Figure 8. – Significant French ichthyo- logical records for 2018 (continued). A: Lebetus sp., 12 mm TL, 6 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0098; B: Speleogobius trigloides, ~3 cm TL, 4 Aug. 2018 (reversed photograph); C: Thorogobius macrolepis, ~6 cm TL, 13 Apr. 2018 (reversed photograph); D: Thorogobius macrolepis, ~5 cm TL, 16 Jun. 2018; E: Vanneaugobius dollfusi, ~6 cm TL, 7 Apr. 2018; (reversed photograph); F: Vanneaugobius dollfusi, ~4 cm TL, 30 Sep. 2018; G: Lepidocybium flavo- brunneum, ~1.5-2 m TL; 4 Oct. 2018; H: Hyperoglyphe sp., ~35-40 cm TL, 11 Jun. 2018 (landed); I: Pegusa cf. nasuta, ~7 cm TL; 18 Oct. 2018.