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Occidentarius platypogon (Cominate sea catfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Occidentarius platypogon, commonly known as the combinate sea-catfish, is a species of sea catfish found in marine and brackish waters along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru. It is the only member of its genus. It is a very abundant fish of the continental shelf and is fished for human consumption. It grows to a length of 45 cm.
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Parasitized by 
Benedenia sciaenae[1]
Diplectanum aculeatum[1]
Stephanostomum bicoronatum[1]

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1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2TROPHIC INTERRELATIONS OF THE THREE MOST ABUNDANT FISH SPECIES FROM LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO, V. H. Cruz-Escalona, L. A. Abitia-Cardenas, L. Campos-Dávila and F. Galvan-Magaña, BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 66(2): 361–373, 2000
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0