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