Antipathidae Ehrenberg, 1834

Lima, Manuela M., Cordeiro, Ralf T. S. & Perez, Carlos D., 2019, Black Corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 4692 (1), pp. 1-67 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4692.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F054DC68-6A7E-4C80-9094-8ECCA4502CD6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688318
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F878B-C916-FF9C-F9EB-FD2CFE92F185
treatment provided by	Plazi (2019-11-05 07:30:49, last updated 2024-11-24 23:19:22)
scientific name	Antipathidae Ehrenberg, 1834
status

Treatment

Family Antipathidae Ehrenberg, 1834 View in CoL View at ENA

Diagnosis. Corallum unbranched, irregularly branched or flabellate, but never pinnulated. Spines triangular or conical; smooth or covered by papillae or tubercles; apex sometimes bifurcated or multilobate (adapted from Brugler et al., 2013).

References

Brugler, M. R., Opresko, D. M. & France, S. C. (2013) The evolutionary history of the order Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) as inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA: implications for black coral taxonomy and systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169 (2), 312 - 361. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12060