Prognathodes marcellae (Poll, 1950), French butterflyfish Material examined. – No voucher specimens. One individual caught on a fish-trap and photographed, and then identified by the authors. An adult, approximately 97 mm TL, off El Burrero Beach, 27°54’N 15°23’W, 40-50 m, 16 Aug. 2014, sand (Fig. 2D). Sightings and catches. – Twice, n = 2: off El Burrero Beach, 40-50 m, sand; Baja de Gando (= Gando reef), 27° 56’N 15°21’W, 23 m, rocks (Fig. 3). Remarks. – A tropical reef-associated species, living from 12 to 140 m of depth (Maugé, 1990). Most specimens were collected on soft bottoms (Maugé, 1990). Oviparous; form pairs during breeding (Breder and Rosen, 1966). No information exists on its feeding habits in literature. Maximum length published is 116 mm TL (Reiner, 2005). An eastern Atlantic species, known from Senegal and Cape Verde Islands (Maugé, 1990; Brito et al., 1999; Wirtz et al., 2013; Hanel and John, 2015) to Angola (Bianchi, 1986), including the Gulf of Guinea islands of São Tomé and Rolas where is common at 5-20 m (Wirtz et al., 2007). P. marcellae was first reported from the Canaries by Brito (1991), as a demersal littoral species on rocky bottom, based on one individual caught in the South of Tenerife Island.

Published as part of Triay-Portella, Raül, Pajuelo, José G., Manent, Pablo, Espino, Fernando, Ruiz-Díaz, Raquel, Lorenzo, José M. & González, José A., 2015, New records of non-indigenous fishes (Perciformes and Tetraodontiformes) from the Canary Islands (north-eastern Atlantic), pp. 163-174 in Cybium 39 (3) on page 167, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2015-393-001, http://zenodo.org/record/13613589