Bathydraco

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| image = Bathydraco antarcticus.jpg

| image_caption = B. antarcticus

| image2 = Bathydraco marri.jpg

| image2_caption = Deep-water Dragon (B. marri)

| taxon = Bathydraco

| authority = Günther, 1878

| type_species = Bathydraco antarcticus

| type_species_authority = Günther 1878{{Cof family | family = Bathydraconidae | access-date= 7 October 2021}}

}}

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.{{Cof genus | genus = Bathydraco | access-date = 7 October 2021}} The generic name Bathydraco is a combination of bathy meaning "deep" and draco meaning dragon, the type of B. antarctica was collected at {{cvt|2304|m}} and draco is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids.{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/perciformes7/ | title = Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenoididei: Families Bovichtidae, Pseaudaphritidae, Elegopinidae, Nototheniidae, Harpagiferidae, Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, Channichthyidae and Percophidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 12 April 2021 | access-date = 7 October 2021 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:{{FishBase genus | genus = Bathydraco| month = February | year = 2013}}

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

References

Category:Bathydraconidae

Category:Fish of Antarctica

Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther