Cryodraco atkinsoni is a bathydemersal species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes.

Cryodraco atkinsoni was first formally described in 1914 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan with the type locality given as the Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean where it had been collected by the Terra Nova Expedition.

[4] The specific name honours Edward Leicester Atkinson who was the surgeon on the Terra Nova Expedition.

[5] Cryodraco atkinsoni has up to 10 dark bars on each side of its body with dark spots present on its head, and is distinguished from congener Cryodraco antarcticus by being much smaller having a maximum total length of 29.3 cm (11.5 in) compared to maximum total length of 39.3 cm (15.5 in).

[7] Cryodraco atkinsoni is found in the Southern Ocean where it confined to the waters of the eastern Antarctic.