Centrochir

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Centrochir | type_species = ''Doras crocodili'' | type_species_authority = Humboldt, 1821 | authority = Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz, 1829 }}

'''''Centrochir''''' is a small genus of thorny catfishes native to freshwater habitats in subtropical and tropical South America.<ref name=fishbase>{{FishBase genus | genus=Centrochir | month=July | year=2018 | access-date=25 July 2018}}</ref>

It is the sister genus of the Raphael catfish genus ''Platydoras''.

==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{Cof genus|genus=Centrochir|access-date=31 October 2025}}</ref> * ''Centrochir birindellii'' <small>(Sousa, Chaves, Akama, Zuanon & Sabaj, 2018)</small><ref name=Sousa2018>{{cite journal| author1=Sousa, L.M. | author2=M.S. Chaves | author3=A. Akama | author4=J. Zuanon | author5=M.H. Sabaj | year=2018 | title=''Platydoras birindellii'', new species of striped raphael catfish (Siluriformes: Doradidae) from the Xingu Basin, Brazil | journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | volume=166 | issue=1 | pages=1–13 | doi=10.1635/053.166.0106 | bibcode=2018PANSP.166....1S | s2cid=90673235 }}</ref> * ''Centrochir crocodili'' <small>(Humboldt, 1821)</small>

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Category:Catfish genera Category:Taxa named by Louis Agassiz Category:Freshwater fish genera Category:Doradidae