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Bathydraco
Sign in to saveBathydraco is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyBathydraconidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Bathydraconidae
- Collections
- MNHN, YPM, USNM, AM
- Recorded in
- Ocean Antarctique, Antarctique, Antarctica, Mer De Weddell, Mer De Scotia, Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
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