Altigena is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in the continental part of South East Asia.

This genus was resurrected from Bangana by Maurice Kottelat in 2017.

[2] The generic name was originally intended as a subgenus of Osteochilus by a Chinese author Lin, and describes the distinguishing feature, alluding to altus, "high" and γένυς (génys), "chin".

As Lin did not designate a type species, authorship was granted to Burton, the editor of the Zoological Record.

[3] Altigena contains the following valid species:[4] This Labeoninae article is a stub.