Didogobius splechtnai Ahnelt & Patzner, 1995

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 : 299

Didogobius splechtnai Ahnelt & Patzner, 1995

A Splechtna’s goby, Gobiidae ( Fig. 7D ), was observed and photographed by P. Louisy while scuba diving on 9 Jun. 2018 ( Louisy et al., 2019a). It was encountered on a sandy substrate in a small shady cave at the bottom of a rock wall covered by coralline algae, at Arches de Plane, Calseraigne Island (also known as île Plane), in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône, Mediterranean Sea, France), at 12 m depth at 43.1856°N, 5.3905°E. The individual was about 4 cm TL. The species is uncommonly recorded and observed because of its very specific habitat ( Francour, 2008).

Figures

Figure 7. – Significant French ichthyo- logical records for 2018 (continued). A: Buenia affinis, ~3 cm TL, 6 Aug. 2018; B: Buenia jeffreysii, 37 and 39 mm TL, 23 Oct. 2018; C: Chromogobius zebratus, ~5 cm TL, 13 Feb. 2018 (reversed photograph); D: Didogobius splechtnai, ~4 cm TL, 9 Jun. 2018 (reversed photograph); E: Gammogobius steinitzi, ~3 cm TL, 9 Jun. 2018; F-G: Gobius couchi, ~6-7 cm TL, 9 Aug. 2018 (reversed photographs); H: Gobius kolombatovici, ~6 cm TL, 1 Nov. 2018; I: G. kolombatovici, ~6 cm TL, 9 Jun. 218; J: G. kolombatovici, ~7 cm TL, 17 Jun. 2018 (reversed photograph).