Occidentarius platypogon Gunther 1864
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Siluriformes
- family
- Ariidae
- genus
- Occidentarius
- species
- Occidentarius platypogon
description
Cominate Sea Catfish or Slender-spined Catfish. To 53.5 cm (21.1 in) TL (Hernández-Padilla et al. 2020). Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) to northern Peru (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Depth: 3 – 107 m (10 – 351 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California as Netuma platypogon; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996). Originally and still sometimes classified in Arius, also recently in Sciades and Aspistor (Fricke et al. 2020).