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Occidentarius platypogon Gunther 1864
Description
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).
Notes
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
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ariidae
- Genus
- Occidentarius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- platypogon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Occidentarius platypogon Gunther, 1864 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Hernandez-Padilla, J. C., Capetillo-Pinar, N., Aranceta-Garza, F., Yee-Duarte, J. A., Vele-Arellano, N. & Velazquez-Abunader, I. (2020) Length-weight relationships of 12 marine fish species from the Pacific coast of Guatamala associated with smallscale fisheries. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 36, 863 - 865. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jai. 14093
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Cota-Gomez, V. M. (1998) Ichthyofauna of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico: new records and range extensions. Ciencias Marinas, 24, 353 - 358. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 24 i 3.751
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).