Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758

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

Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758

A Greater weever, Trachinidae ( Fig. 5I ) was captured on 21 Jul. 2018 by the fisherman Mr Pierre Nicolas on the coastal trawler Lhassa from Concarneau with a bottom trawl. It was captured off the Glénan archipelago (Bay of Biscay, France), at about 47.6°N, – 3.7°W. The fresh specimen measured 341 mm TL and weighed 261.6 g. The specimen was not preserved. Recorded by S.P. Iglésias. This species is rarely observed in the area and had never been observed before by this senior fisherman .

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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.