platypogon, Arius Günther [A.] 1864:147, Figs. [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 5; ref. 1974] San José, Guatemala. Syntypes: BMNH 1864.1.26.316-319 (4). •Valid as Galeichthys (Neutuma) platypogon (Günther 1864) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:25 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Arius platypogon Günther 1864 -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:68 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:62 [ref. 23101], Kailola & Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995:873 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:57 [ref. 24545], De La Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:356 [ref. 23520]). •Valid as Ariopsis platypogon (Günther 1864) -- (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:152 [ref. 24550], Nelson et al. 2004:83 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:28 [ref. 37547]). •Valid as Hexanematichthys platypogon (Günther 1864) -- (Marceniuk & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:452 [ref. 27061]). •Valid as Aspistor platypogon (Günther 1864) -- (Kailola 2004:128 [ref. 28108]). •Valid as Sciades platypogon (Günther 1864) -- (Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:109 [ref. 29031]). •Valid as Occidentarius platypogon (Günther 1864) -- (Betancur-R. et al. 2007:349 [ref. 29268], Marceniuk et al. 2012:667 [ref. 32225], Page et al. 2013:82 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:115 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:400 [ref. 34894], González-Murcia et al. 2019:291 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:45 [ref. 39279], Marceniuk et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40422], Page et al. 2023:78 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Occidentarius platypogon (Günther 1864). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.