Bathydraconidae
| Antarctic dragonfishes | |
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| Bathydraco antarcticus | |
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| Family: | Bathydraconidae Regan, 1914
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Acanthodraco | |
The Antarctic dragonfishes are a family, Bathydraconidae, of deep-sea perciform fishes.[1][2]
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
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Bathydraconidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ "Bathydraconidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 March 2006.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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