Fistularia cf. petimba Lacepède, 1803

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

Fistularia cf. petimba Lacepède, 1803

A Red cornetfish, Fistulariidae , was collected on 25 Jun. 2018 by a fisherman. It was collected off shore the Bassin d’Arcachon (Gironde, Bay of Biscay, France), at about 44.5°N, – 1.5°W. The fish measured about 1 m TL. The specimen was identified as most probably being F. petimba rather than a congeneric species. Recorded by P. Francour. A Red cornetfish was previously recorded from the Galician waters ( Spain) on 11 May 2006 ( Bañón and Sande, 2008). The present specimen is a first record for the French Atlantic waters and the Bay of Biscay. A preserved voucher specimen will be needed in the future to support the specific identification in the area. The species is an addition to the Checklist of the marine fishes from metropolitan France ( Béarez et al., 2017). It represents a northern expansion of its range and it may be related to warming waters as a consequence of climate change.