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 Callenger 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 2304 m and draco is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids.

Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:
 * 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