Occidentarius platypogon Gunther 1864

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Siluriformes; Ariidae; Occidentarius; Occidentarius platypogon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5821974; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFBDFF9998EAFAC9FEE1360C

Occidentarius platypogon Günther, 1864. 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). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 45, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008