Eutelichthys leptochirus Tortonese, 1959

Iglésias, Samuel P., Bariche, Michel, Beau, Florent, Bérenger, Lucas, Beucher, Renaud, Chabrolle, Antoine, Cottalorda, Jean-Michel, Cousin, Bertrand, Curd, Amelia, Danet, Valentin, Duhamel, Erwan, Duval, Audrey, Farque, Pierre-André, Goascoz, Nicolas, Jadaud, Angélique, Larnaud, Pascal, Bouter, Mathieu Le, Bras, Yvan Le, Bris, Sylvain Le, Lombard, Laurent, Louisy, Patrick, Mandine, Alain, Mas, Lise, Menut, Thomas, Metral, Luisa, Poussard, Pierre, Quéro, Jean-Claude, Raybaud, Virginie, Renoult, Julien P., Richard, Thomas, Spitz, Jérôme, Ternon, Quentin, Thiriet, Pierre & Tournier-Broer, Ruben, 2021, French ichthyological records for 2019, Cybium 45 (3), pp. 169-188 : 175

Eutelichthys leptochirus Tortonese, 1959

A specimen of this Liparidae ( Fig. 4E ) was collected on 30 May 2019 during the MEDITS survey, using a bottom trawl. It was collected in the Gulf of Lion (Mediterranean Sea) at Station G 503 (42.696 / 42.656 °N, 3.953 / 3.991°E), at 762-814 m depth. Seawater bottom temperature was 13.34- 13.53°C and salinity was 32.18-32.32‰. The fresh specimen measured 63 mm TL and weighed 1.93 g. It was preserved with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2021-0144 and a tissue sample was preserved under No. BPS-4290. Recorded by L. Metral and A. Jadaud. This species, known only in the western Mediterranean, is very uncommonly recorded. It was recorded for the first time in the Gulf of Lion in 2017 ( Iglésias et al., 2019) .

Figures

Figure 4. – Significant French ichthyological records for 2019 (continued). A: Holocentrus adscensionis, ~20 cm TL, Aug 2019 (© L. Lombard); B: Nerophis lumbriciformis, ~10 cm TL, 26 Jan 2019; the black arrow indicates the head of the individual (© L. Bérenger); C: Scorpaena scrofa, 345 mm TL, 6-12 May 2019, MNHN-IC 2021-0143 (© S.P. Iglésias); D: Lepidotrigla dieuzeidei, 150 mm TL, 26 Oct 2019 (© S.P. Iglésias); E: Eutelichthys leptochirus, 63 mm TL, 30 May 2019, MNHN-IC 2021-0144 (© L. Metral); F: Liparis montagui, ~3 cm TL, 10 Jan 2019 (© J.P. Renoult); G: Mycteroperca rubra, ~20 cm TL, 25 Jul 2019 (© F. Beau); H: Serranus cabrilla, ~25 cm TL, 11 Oct 2019 (© F. Bernard).