Bathydraconidae

The Bathydraconidae, or the Antarctic dragonfishes, are a family of deep-sea perciform fishes.[1][2]

Antarctic dragonfishes
Bathydraco antarcticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Notothenioidei
Family:	Bathydraconidae Regan, 1914
Genera[1]
Acanthodraco Akarotaxis Bathydraco Cygnodraco Gerlachea Gymnodraco Parachaenichthys Prionodraco Psilodraco Racovitzia Vomeridens

They are benthopelagic fishes found in Antarctic waters. They are not fished commercially and little is known about them.[3]

Molecular data support the split of bathydraconids into three clades: Bathydraconinae (Bathydraco, Prionodraco, Racovitzia), Gymnodraconinae (Gymnodraco, Psilodraco, Acanthodraco), and Cygnodraconinae (Cygnodraco, Gerlachea, Parachaenichthys).[4]

References

1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Bathydraconidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
2. "Bathydraconidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 March 2006.
3. Andrzej Kompowski. "Studies on Psilodraco breviceps Norman, 1937 (Pisces, Nototheniodei, Bathydraconidae) from the region of South Georgia" (PDF). Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-25.
4. N. Derome; W. J. Chen; A. Dettai; C. Bonillo; G. Lecointre (2002). "Phylogeny of Antarctic dragonfishes (Bathydraconidae, Notothenioidei, Teleostei) and related families based on their anatomy and two mitochondrial genes". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 24 (1): 139–152. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00223-3. PMID 12128034.