Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758

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

Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758

A red scorpionfish, Scorpaenidae ( Fig. 4C ), was collected between the 6 and 12 May 2019 by the fisherman Mr Yann Delaplace on the coastal trawler Notre Dame des Sables from Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, with a bottom trawl. It was collected off the Saint Marcouf Islands in the Seine Bay (ca. 49.52°N, 1.9°W, English Channel) at about 25 m depth. The fresh specimen measured 345 mm TL, 270 mm SL, 123 mm HL and weighed 910.6 g. This specimen was preserved with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2021-0143 and a tissue sample was preserved under No. BPS-4271. Recorded by B. Cousin and N. Goascoz. This species is rarely recorded in the English Channel and the North Sea .

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).