Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (Walbaum, 1792)

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (Walbaum, 1792) View in CoL – Megrim

( Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ; Tab. I)

Material examined. Two unsexed adults, 508 mm TL, 423 mm SL (TFMCBM-VP/01958), 480 mm TL, 408 mm SL (TFMCBM-VP/01959), off La Santa, Tinajo, west of the island of Lanzarote, 29°10’N 13°40’W, 280-290 m, 28 Jan. 2023, soft substrate, bottom trammel net.

(1) Ecología Marina Aplicada y Pesquerías , i-UNAT, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Campus de Tafira,

35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. pepe.solea@ulpgc.es, josemaria.lorenzo@ulpgc.es

(2) Professional Underwater Photographer, Lomo de la Herradura, 35200 Telde, Las Palmas, Spain.arturotelle@hotmail.com and 300 m, living on the inner continental shelf ( Munroe and Chanet, 2016). Adult megrims occur on soft bottom. They are voracious diurnal predators feeding primary on small bottom-living fishes, but also including squids and crustaceans in its diet ( Nielsen, 1986; Munroe and Chanet, 2016). For more information on biological, ecological and fisheries data on this species, see Munroe and Chanet (2016) and Froese and Pauly (2023). Distribution: Eastern Atlantic. Known from Scandinavia ( Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) (64°N), Baltic Sea and Faeroe Islands and southward to off the coasts of western Europe and northwestern Africa to about Cape Bojador, Western Sahara (26°N), including the Azores Islands; also western, central, and eastern Mediterranean Sea ( Munroe and Chanet, 2016; Froese and Pauly, 2023).