Regalecus glesne Ascanius, 1772

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

Regalecus glesne Ascanius, 1772

A live King of herrings, Regalecidae ( Fig. 4A ), was observed by C. Gicqueau on 5 Apr. 2018 beached in the Bay of Port-Cros (Var, Mediterranean Sea, France), at 43.0083°N, 6.3834°E ( Gicqueau et al., 2018). The individual was about 160 cm TL. The specimen was released off northern Port-Cros. This specimen was previously recorded by Peirache et al. (2018). This species is uncommonly recorded both in French waters ( Quéro et al., 2003b) and globally ( Roberts, 2012). In the last few years several individuals of the species have regularly been observed off Nice in the Mediterranean in the vicinity of a weather buoy ( Loyer, 2015).

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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.