Nemichthys curvirostris (Strömman, 1896)

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 : 289

Nemichthys curvirostris (Strömman, 1896)

A Boxer snipe eel, Nemichthyidae ( Fig. 3A ), was collected on 1 Jun. 2018 during the MEDITS survey, using a bottom trawl. It was collected in the Gulf of Lion ( Mediterranean Sea , France), at Operation 25, Station G 407, at 43.0273 / 42.9722 °N, 5.1225 / 5.1092°E, at 284-936 m depth. Seawater bottom temperature was 13.4-13.5°C and salinity was 34.84-35.00‰. The individual measured 673 mm TL, 52 mm HL. The specimen was preserved with the collection No. MNHN-IC 2020-0082 and a tissue sample was preserved under No. BPS-4259. Recorded by L. Metral and A. Jadaud. This species is an addition to the Checklist of the marine fishes from metropolitan France ( Béarez et al., 2017) and this specimen may represent the first record for the Mediterranean Sea .

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Figure 3. – Significant French ichthyological records for 2018 (continued). A: Nemichthys curvirostris, 673 mm TL, 1 Jun. 2018, body (up), head (down), MNHN-IC 2020-0082; B: Eurypharynx pelecanoides, 491 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0083 (head); C: Maulisia mauli, 153 mm TL, 21 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0084; D: Maulisia microlepis, 271 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020- 0085; E: Sagamichthys schnakenbecki, 27 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0086 (ventral view); F: Melanostomias bartonbeani, 272 mm TL, 24 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0087; G: Astronesthes niger, 186 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0088; H: Leptostomias gladiator, 399 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0089; I: Chlorophthalmus agassizi, 167 mm TL, 23 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0090; J: Magnisudis atlantica, 312 mm TL, 23 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0091; K: Evermannella balbo, 126 mm TL, 26 Oct. 2018, MNHN-IC 2020-0092.