Pseudoscopelus altipinnis Parr, 1933

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 : 296

Pseudoscopelus altipinnis Parr, 1933

A Black swallower, Chiasmodontidae ( Fig. 5H ), was collected on 26 Oct. 2018 during the EVHOE survey, using a pelagic trawl. It was collected at Station W 0562 (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 184 mm TL, 169 mm FL, 155 mm SL, 41 mm HL and weighed 40 g. The specimen was preserved with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2020-0097 and a tissue sample was preserved under No. BPS-4248. Recorded by J. Spitz and S.P. Iglésias. This species is an addition to the Checklist of the marine fishes from metropolitan France ( Béarez et al., 2017). The species was previously recorded off Portugal and represents a northern range extension for European waters.

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Figure 5. – Significant French ichthyo- logical records for 2018 (continued). A: Caranx crysos, 58 cm TL, 03 Nov. 2018; B: Seriola rivoliana, 47 cm TL, 30 Jan. 2018; C: Seriola rivoliana, 44 cm TL, 01 Oct. 2018; D: Trachinotus ovatus, ~40 cm TL, 07 Sept. 2018; Trachinotus ovatus, E: Trachinotus ovatus, ~30 cm TL; 01 Oct. 2018; F: Lobotes surinamensis, 455 mm TL, 21 Oct. 2010, MNHN-IC 2020-0096; G: Sarpa salpa, ~40 cm TL, 11 Jan. 2018; H: Pseudoscopelus altipinnis, 184 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN- IC 2020-0097; I: Trachinus draco, 341 mm TL, 21 Jul. 2018.