Occidentarius platypogon Günther, 1864

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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) .