WoRMS name details
Arius platypogon Günther, 1864
293657 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293657)
unaccepted (synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Arius platypogon Günther, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293657 on 2025-04-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Arius platypogon, Panama, by Robertson, R.)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 36 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Arius platypogon Günther, 1864; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2596209)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius platypogon RAD115938-001)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Arius platypogon, Panama, by Robertson, R.)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 36 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Arius platypogon Günther, 1864; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2596209)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius platypogon RAD115938-001)
