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 | |
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| B. antarcticus | |
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| Deep-water Dragon (B. marri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Bathydraconidae |
| Genus: | Bathydraco Günther, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Bathydraco antarcticus Günther 1878[1]
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Taxonomy edit
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.[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 edit
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
References edit
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bathydraconidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bathydraco". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (12 April 2021). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenoididei: Families Bovichtidae, Pseaudaphritidae, Elegopinidae, Nototheniidae, Harpagiferidae, Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, Channichthyidae and Percophidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Bathydraco in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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