Ompok platyrhynchus, a new silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo. Author Heok Hee Ng Author Heok Hui Tan text Zootaxa 2004 580 1 11 http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:31D7F75E-946F-4C75-8409-FAAFC9BA086F journal article z00580p001 [[ Ompok Lacepede ]] The catfish genus Ompok Lacepede , 1803 , refers to medium-sized silurid fishes found in inland waters throughout South and Southeast Asia. Bornbusch (1995) showed that Ompok , as currently understood, is probably paraphyletic. However, given the weak support for the monophyly of his clades, the taxonomy of Ompok is not stable enough to reassign any of the existing species to other genera.