Bathypathes patula Brook, 1889

Fig. 35

Bathypathes patula Brook, 1889: 151–152; Roule, 1902: 237; Roule, 1905: 76; Cooper, 1909: 310–311, 320; Gravier, 1921: 16; Parternak, 1985: 34; Opresko, 1997: 159; Van der Land & Opresko, 2001: 109; Opresko, 2001: 205–206, 209; Opresko, 2002: 415–417, fig. 2; Opresko, 2005: 130, 132–133; Molodtsova, 2006: 141–142, fig. 1, 5.

Bathypathes patula var. plenispina Brook, 1889: 152; Thomson, 1905: 25.

p.p. Eubathypathes patula Van Pesch, 1914: 29;

p.p. Bathypathes patula Pasternak, 1958: 181 –187, 190–191; Pasternak, 1964: 183, 201; Opresko, 1974: 127–130; Pasternak, 1976: 46–47,54; Pasternak, 1977: 157–159, 162–164; Mirnov & Pasternak, 1981: 15; Grasshoff, 1981 a: 741–742, 755, 760; Grasshoff, 1981 b: 961, 978; Pasternak, 1993: 86–87.

Bathypathes erotema Schultze, 1902: 98 .

? Schizopathes crassa: Hickson, 1907: 11 .

? Bathypathes patula: Keller et al., 1975: 157 .

Type and type locality. BMNH 1890.4.9.19 (holotype): 32º21’57.6”N, 169º52’58.8”W, North Pacific, 5303 m .

Diagnosis. “Corallum monopodial and pinnulate, attached to hard substrates by a holdfast. Pinnules simple, bilateral and subopposite, about 9 mm apart in each row. Longest ones occur near the middle of the corallum. Spines simple triangular, compressed, 0.04–0.07 mm tall. Polyps up to 9 mm in transverse diameter, arranged in a single row” (Molodtsova, 2006).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan; from 100 m to 5500 m depths (Molodtsova, 2006); off Falkland island, 54º25’0.12”S, 57º31’59.88”W (fig. 35) (record available in <mapper.obis.org>).