1. French ichthyological records for 2018
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Iglésias, Samuel P. and Patricia Bergot, Pascal Breton, Stéphanie Brunelle, Mathieu Camusat, Romain Causse, Éric Charbonnel, Pierre Chevaldonné, Yves Cordier, Paul Cosquer, Jean-Pierre Cuillandre, Amelia Curd, Rémy Dubas, Muriel Duhau, Sandrine Derrien-Courtel, Gabriel Devique, Stéphane Dixneuf, Erwan Duhamel, Pierre-André Farque, Patrice Francour†, Yann Fontana, Adelaïde Gamon, Charly Gicqueau, Nicolas Goascoz, Sami Hassani, Angélique Jadaud, Dorothée Kopp, Laure Lamour, Sylvain Le Bris, Laurent Lévèque, Pablo Liger, Pascal Lorance, Patrick Louisy, Vincent Maran, Sonia Méhault, Luisa Metral, Alizée Morin-Repinçay, Olivier Mouchel, Anthony Pere, Jean-Claude Quéro, Julien P. Renoult, François Roche, Livier Schweyer, Jérôme Spitz, Pierre Thiriet, Wilfried Thomas
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First record, New record, Distribution, Expansion, Fishes, Northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean ,14. Life underwater - Abstract
Uncommon records of fishes may evidence local or global changes in fish composition resulting from environmental change or anthropogenic activities. Significant records of uncommon marine fishes, including migrant, non-native, cryptic, rare and threatened species, collected in French waters or by French vessels in European waters, observed by scuba divers or beachgoers, are reported for the year 2018. They include first, new, rare and unusual records for the following 52 species: Hexanchus griseus, Squatina squatina, Gymnura altavela, Acipenser sturio, A. gueldenstaedtii, Dalophis imberbis, Nemichthys curvirostris, Eurypharynx pelecanoides, Maulisia mauli, M. microlepis, Sagamichthys schnakenbecki, Melanostomias bartonbeani, Astronesthes niger*, Leptostomias gladiator*, Chlorophthalmus agassizi, Magnisudis atlantica, Evermannella balbo, Regalecus glesne, Luvarus imperialis, Raniceps raninus, Fistularia cf. petimba*, Trigla lyra, Lepidotrigla dieuzeidei, Micrenophrys lilljeborgii, Howella atlantica*, Pomatomus saltatrix, Serranus cabrilla, Caranx crysos, Seriola rivoliana, Trachinotus ovatus, Lobotes surinamensis, Sarpa salpa, Chelon ramada, Pseudoscopelus altipinnis*, Trachinus draco, Parablennius pilicornis, P. ruber, Buenia affinis, B. jeffreysii, Chromogobius zebratus, Didogobius splechtnai, Gammogobius steinitzi, Gobius couchi, G. kolombatovici, Lebetus sp., Speleogobius trigloides, Thorogobius macrolepis, Vanneaugobius dollfusi, Siganus rivulatus*, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, Hyperoglyphe sp. et Pegusa cf. nasuta, among which six, marked with an asterisk (*), represent additions to the Checklist of the marine fishes from metropolitan France and one, N. curvirostris, is a first record for the Mediterranean.