Ariidae

Genidens machadoi

Genidens machadoi

Catfish beneath Western Atlantic

• Tropical
• Coastal
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• South America
• Large
• Tropical fish

Genidens machadoi is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro in 1918, originally under the genus Tachysurus. It inhabits rivers along the south Atlantic coast in Argentina,Uruguay and Brazil.