Howella atlantica Post & Quéro, 1991

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 : 294

Howella atlantica Post & Quéro, 1991

An Atlantic pelagic basslet, Howellidae ( Fig. 4H ), was collected on 27 Oct. 2018 during the EVHOE survey, using a pelagic trawl. It was collected at Station W0568 (Southern Bay of Biscay, France), at 44.3322 / 44.3448 °N, –2.3215 / –2.4118 °W, at roughly 530 m depth above the continental slope at 1160-1220 m depth. The fresh specimen measured 111 mm TL, 100 mm FL, 92 mm SL, 32 mm HL and weighed 17 g. The specimen was preserved with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2020-0095 and a tissue sample was preserved under No. BPS-4253. Recorded by J. Spitz and S.P. Iglésias. The species was recorded only once in the Bay of Biscay ( Post and Quéro, 1991) and it is an addition to the Checklist of the marine fishes from metropolitan France ( Béarez et al., 2017).

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Figure 4. – Significant French ichthyological records for 2018 (continued). A: Regalecus glesne, ~160 cm TL, 5 Apr. 2018 (reversed photograph); B: Luvarus imperialis, 140 cm TL, 18 Jun. 2018 (Photograph: Martial Hascoet); C: Raniceps raninus, ~16+ cm TL, 24 Jun. 2018; D: Raniceps raninus, ~30 cm TL, 10 Aug. 2018; E: Trigla lyra, 295 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-093; F: Lepidotrigla dieuzeidei, 125 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018; G: Micrenophrys lilljeborgi, 36 mm TL, 30 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0094; H: Howella atlantica, 111 mm TL, 27 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0095; I: Pomatomus saltatrix, 41 cm TL, 20 Nov. 2018; J: Serranus cabrilla, ~25 cm TL, 12 Feb. 2018.