Raniceps raninus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 292

Raniceps raninus (Linnaeus, 1758)

A Tadpole fish, Gadidae ( Fig. 4C ), was collected on 24 Jan. 2018 by the fisherman Mr Dylan Le Brettevillois on the commercial trawler Corydalis from Cherbourg. It was collected off Northeast of Barfleur (Cotentin, France, English Channel), at about 49.92°N, – 0.93°W, at around 50 m depth. The fish measured roughly 16+ cm long (tail missing). The specimen was not preserved. Recorded by N. Goascoz. A second Tadpole fish, ( Fig. 4D ), was observed by F. Roche and photographed by Yvelyse Mathieu while scuba diving on 10 Aug. 2018 in the Bay of Lampaul (Ouessant, Finistère, France, Celtic Sea), at 48.4503°N, – 5.1224°W at 30 m depth ( Roche et al., 2019a). The individual, estimated to be 30 cm in length, was encountered on the bottom of a semi-shaded tunnel. This species is uncommonly recorded due to its cryptic habitat where it avoids most fishing gears ( Legendre, 1950; Quéro et al., 1980; Costa and Quéro, 1988; Iglésias et al., 2019).

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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.