# Centrochir

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| taxon = Centrochir
| type_species = ''Doras crocodili''
| type_species_authority = Humboldt, 1821
| authority = Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz, 1829
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'''''Centrochir''''' is a small [genus](/source/genus) of [thorny catfish](/source/thorny_catfish)es native to freshwater habitats in [subtropical](/source/subtropical) and [tropical](/source/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](/source/sister_genus) of the Raphael catfish genus ''[Platydoras](/source/Platydoras)''.

==Species==
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{Cof genus|genus=Centrochir|access-date=31 October 2025}}</ref>
* ''[Centrochir birindellii](/source/Centrochir_birindellii)'' <small>([Sousa](/source/Leandro_M._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](/source/Centrochir_crocodili)'' <small>([Humboldt](/source/Alexander_von_Humboldt), 1821)</small>

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

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