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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyAriidae
  5. ›genusOccidentarius
Occidentarius platypogon
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Cominate Sea Catfish

Occidentarius platypogon (Günther, 1864)

Also calledBagre Picalon (spa) · Mâchoiron Cominate (fra) · bagre cominate (spa) · křížovec širokobradý (ces)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

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).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4353116.