Trichogenes

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Trichogenes claviger.png

| image_caption = Trichogenes claviger

| parent_authority = Isbrücker, 1986

| taxon = Trichogenes

| authority = Britski & Ortega, 1983

| type_species = Trichogenes longipinnis

| type_species_authority = Britski & Ortega, 1983{{cite journal|last1=Britski |first1=H. A. |last2=Ortega |first2=H. | date=1983| title=Trichogenes longipinnis, novo gênero e espécie de Trichomycterinae do sudeste do Brasil (Pisces, Siluriformes)| trans-title=Trichogenes longipinnis, a new genus and species of the Trichomycterinae from the southeast of Brazil (Pisces, Siluriformes)| journal=Revista Brasileira de Zoologia| volume=1| number=3| pages=211–216| language=pt| url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v1n3/v1n3a11.pdf| doi=10.1590/s0101-81751982000300011| doi-access=free}}

}}

Trichogenes is a genus of pencil catfishes. It is currently the only genus within the subfamily Trichogeninae.

A third species, T. beagle, was described in 2020 from archival material of unknown origin. The occurrence of the new species in the wild is unknown.{{Cite journal|last1=Pinna|first1=Mário C. C. de|last2=Reis|first2=Vinícius (Vinícius José Carvalho)|last3=Britski|first3=Heraldo A.|date=2020|title=A new species of Trichogenes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae), with a discussion on the homologies of the anterior orbital bones in trichomycterids and other loricarioids |journal=American Museum Novitates |number=3951|hdl=2246/7115 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/7115|language=en-US}}