Genus Taxipathes Brook, 1889

Type-species. Taxipathes recta Brook, 1889 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Corallum branched, stem and branches pinnulate. Pinnules simple, arranged bilaterally in four to eight rows (usually six), and also in alternating semispiral groupings. Spines simple, conical, hooked upwards. Polyps about 2.5 mm in transverse diameter. (Brook, 1889; Opresko, 2002).

Distribution. South Atlantic, Ascension Island (Brook, 1889), and Caribbean Sea, off Colômbia (Smithsonian, USNM 86892, identified by D. M. Opresko; available in <http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/>).