Dermatias platynogaster Smith and Radcliffe, in Radcliffe, 1912:206–207, pl. 17, fig. 3 (original description, single specimen). Pietsch and Kharin, 2004:123, 124, figs. 1, 3, 4 (resurrection from synonymy of Oneirodes eschrichtii). Kharin and Pietsch, 2007:806, figs. 1, 2 (additional specimen, off Queensland, Australia).

Dolopichthys platynogaster: Regan, 1926:29–30 (brief description after Smith and Radcliffe, in Radcliffe, 1912; in key). Bertelsen, 1951:79, 81 (one of 22 nominal species placed in the Oneirodes eschrichti-group). Pietsch, 1974a:44, 53, 102, table 9 (a synonym of Oneirodes eschrichtii).

Dolopichthys (subgenus Dermatias) platynogaster: Parr, 1927:14 (in key). Regan and Trewavas, 1932:68, fig. 95 (brief description after Smith and Radcliffe, in Radcliffe, 1912; in key

Pietschichthys horridus Kharin, 1989:158–160, figs. 1, 2 (original description, single specimen). Pietsch and Kharin, 2004:123, 125, figs. 2, 4 (a junior synonym of Dermatias platynogaster).