Aconichthys Waite, 1916 Racovitzia is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes.

Racovitzia was formally described as a genus in 1900 by the Belgian palaeontologist Louis Dollo when he was describing the only species in what was then considered to be a monotypic genus, Racovitzia glacialis[1] the type of which had been collected by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition off the Antarctic at 71°23'S, 87°32'W or 71°19'S, 87°37'W.

[3] The genus name honours the Romanian biologist Emil Racoviță who was the naturalist aboard the Belgica the ship which carried and supported the Belgian Antarctic Expedition.

[4] There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[5] Racovitzia has a slender elongated body which is only slightly compressed and has a long spatulate snout.

There is a strong ridge on the operculum which ends either in a rounded point or a small number of serrations.