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.

Bathydraco
B. antarcticus
Deep-water Dragon (B. marri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Bathydraconidae
Genus:	Bathydraco Günther, 1878
Type species
Bathydraco antarcticus Günther 1878[1]

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.^[1][2] The generic name Bathydraco is a combination of bathy meaning "deep" and draco meaning dragon, the type of B. antarctica was collected at 2,304 m (7,559 ft) and draco is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids.^[3]

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:^[4]

• Bathydraco antarcticus Günther, 1878
• Bathydraco joannae H. H. DeWitt, 1985
• Bathydraco macrolepis Boulenger, 1907
• Bathydraco marri Norman, 1938 (Deep-water dragon)
• Bathydraco scotiae Dollo, 1906