Bathydraco


Bathydraco is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.

Taxonomy

Bathydraco was first described as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus with B. antarctica, which had been collected on the Challenger expedition south of Heard Island, as its type species. The generic name Bathydraco is a combination of bathy meaning "deep" and draco meaning dragon, the type of B. antarctica was collected at and draco is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids.

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:Bathydraco antarcticus Günther, 1878Bathydraco joannae Hugh [Hamilton DeWitt|H. H. DeWitt], 1985Bathydraco macrolepis George [Albert Boulenger|Boulenger], 1907Bathydraco marri John [Roxborough Norman|Norman], 1938 Bathydraco scotiae Dollo, 1906