Macrodon is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.

Macrodon was first proposed as a genus by the Swiss physician and naturalist Heinrich Rudolf Schinz with Lonchurus ancylodon,[1] a species described in 1801 by Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider from Surinam,[2] as its type species.

They have large, pointed teeth with the two in the front of the upper jaw are canine-like and recurved with barbed tips.

[9][10][11] Macrodon weakfishes are either deliberately targeted or caught as bycatch by commercial and artisanal fisheries and they are valued as food fish.

The two Atlantic species are classified by the IUCN as Least Concern while M. mordax is Data Deficient.