taxonID	type	description	language	source
03D47B42AD3FFF2A4E0EF9C0B199F8FF.taxon	description	(Fig. 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).	en	González, José A., Lorenzo, José M., Telle, Arthur (2024): First records of Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis and Scophthalmus maximus (Scophthalmidae) from the Canary Islands (north-eastern Atlantic). Cybium 48 (1): 75-79, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2023-037, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2023-037
03D47B42AD3DFF294DA7FA9CB191FDA6.taxon	materials_examined	Material observed. – Two unsexed individuals. Both sighted off Puerto del Carmen, Tías, eastern coast of the island of Lanzarote. The larger specimen (about 35 cm TL) was photographed by the third author on a sandy bottom at 12 m depth at 28 ° 55 ’ 9.3 ” N 13 ° 40 ’ 13.7 ” W, 26 Jun. 2021, 19: 00 (at sunset). The smallest specimen (about 30 cm TL) was recently observed by another diver on a sandy clearing surrounded by rocks at 5 m depth at 28 ° 55 ’ 9.1 ” N 13 ° 40 ’ 10.1 ” W, 6 May 2023, 21: 30 (nocturnal), about 50 m away from the previous one. Maximum published size, 100 cm TL (Nielsen, 1986) and 25 kg (Frimodt, 1995); common length up to 50 - 70 cm TL (Muus and Dahlstrøm, 1989; Frimodt, 1995; Munroe and Chanet, 2016). The individuals observed therefore correspond to adult or subadult specimens. Remarks. – It is an eastern Atlantic cold-temperate species, inhabiting on sandy, rocky or mixed substrata in coastal waters, from 1 m to about 70 m (Muus and Dahlstrøm, 1989; Munroe and Chanet, 2016). A marine and brackish species. Adult turbots feed primarily on other bottom-living fishes including gobies, sand eels, herrings, young soles, and occasionally consuming decapod crustaceans and bivalve molluscs (Munroe and Chanet, 2016; Froese and Pauly, 2023). 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; from coastal waters of Norway above Arctic Circle (about 70 ° N) and Iceland, most of Baltic Sea, along western European coasts including Great Britain and western Ireland, south to off Cape Bojador, Western Sahara (26 ° N); also, throughout the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Azov Sea. A single capture from Caspian Sea (Munroe and Chanet, 2016; Froese and Pauly, 2023).	en	González, José A., Lorenzo, José M., Telle, Arthur (2024): First records of Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis and Scophthalmus maximus (Scophthalmidae) from the Canary Islands (north-eastern Atlantic). Cybium 48 (1): 75-79, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2023-037, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2023-037
