Taxipathes Brook, 1889
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Genus Taxipathes Brook, 1889 View in CoL
Type-species. Taxipathes recta Brook, 1889 View in CoL (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/>).
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