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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).
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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).