Black Corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Southwestern Atlantic Author Lima, Manuela M. Author Cordeiro, Ralf T. S. Author Perez, Carlos D. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-11-05 4692 1 1 67 journal article 24975 10.11646/zootaxa.4692.1.1 ead7ec31-b9d4-49f3-a006-a67fff6ad623 1175-5326 3528942 F054DC68-6A7E-4C80-9094-8ECCA4502CD6 Genus Bathypathes Brook, 1889 Type-species. Bathypathes patula Brook, 1889 (by original designation) Diagnosis. “Corallum monopodial and pinnulate; attached to hard substrates by an adhesive basal plate. Pinnules simple, bilateral and either subopposite or alternating. Spines usually simple, triangular, compressed; rarely with knob-like bifurcations at the apex. Polyps 3–9 mm in transverse diameter” ( Opresko, 2002 ). Remarks. The genus Bathypathes Brook, 1889 currently contains eight species of monopodial corals with simple pinnules arranged bilaterally in two rows [ B. patula Brook, 1889 ; B. bifida Thomson, 1905 ; B. conferta ( Brook, 1889 ) ; B. platycaulus Totton, 1923 ; B. galatheae Pasternak, 1977 ; B. erotema Schultze, 1903 ; B. bayeri Opresko, 2001 ; and B. robusta (Gravier, 1918) ]. (Note: the species previously known as B . alternata Broook , was recently transferred to the genus Alternatipathes —see Molodtsova and Opresko, 2017 ) The genus can be distinguished from Schizopathes mainly due to the presence of the basal disk and longer pinnules in the medial portion of the corallum. Distribution. Cosmopolitan ( Molodtsova, 2014 ).