Records of the Globefish and Filefish

IN view of the paucity of records of the globefish, Lagocephalus lagocephalus (L.), around British coasts, it seems worth while recording the recent occurrence of a specimen at Tenby, Pembrokeshire. According to information supplied by Mr. A. L. Leach, it was found alive on September 6 in a pool on the South Sands, Tenby; its length from snout to fork of caudal fin is 14½ in. The colours of the dead specimen are as described by Day in “The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland”, but Mr. Leach states that the skin of the expansible ventral surface of the living fish appeared distinctly pinkish. Of the thirteen or fourteen British specimens of this tropical species listed by Day, nearly all were taken on the south coast; though there is one Welsh record from Amroth near Tenby, and two records from the Orkneys.