TY - JOUR T1 - First record of Dadylopterus volitans (Dactylopteridae) in the Eastern English Channel A1 - Mahe,Kelig A1 - Foucher,Eric A1 - Elleboode,Romain A1 - Iglesias,Samuel A1 - Tetard,Alain AD - IFREMER, Sclerochronol Ctr, Fisheries Lab, F-62321 Boulogne Sur Mer, France. AD - IFREMER, Fisheries Lab, F-14520 Port En Bessin, France. AD - Museum Natl Hist Nat, Dept Milieux & Peuplements Aquat, UMR BOREA 7208, Stn Biol Marine Concarneau, F-29900 Concarneau, France. UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00176/28747/ KW - Dactylopteridae KW - Dactylopterus volitans KW - Atlantic Ocean KW - Eastern English Channel KW - First record N2 - The family Dactylopteridae comprises seven valid species mostly distributed in tropical and subtropical seas (Eschmeyer and Fong, 2013). The flying gurnard Dactylopterus volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) is present in the Eastern Atlantic, apparently from the North Sea to Angola, including the entire Mediterranean Sea and the Azores, and in the Western Atlantic, from Canada to Argentina (Froese and Pauly, 2013). It is the only species of the family Dactylopteridae present in the European Atlantic (from 36 degrees N to 66 degrees N) (Roux, 1986; Quero et al., 2003). The point map of D. volitans given in FishBase (Froese and Pauly, 2013) showed a single record in the Bay of Biscay and a single record point in the Southern North Sea, although the latter seems to be an estimation, not a real observation. This paper reports the first record of D. volitans in the Eastern English Channel. Y1 - 2013/10 PB - Soc Francaise D Ichtyologie JF - Cybium SN - 0399-0974 VL - 37 IS - 4 SP - 307 EP - 308 ID - 28747 ER -