Schizopathes Brook, 1889

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 : 37

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Genus Schizopathes Brook, 1889 View in CoL View at ENA

Type-species. Schizopathes crassa Brook, 1889 View in CoL (original designation by inference, see Opresko, 1997:158).

Diagnosis. Corallum monopodial and pinnulate, unattached, with hook-like holdfast for support in soft sediments. Pinnules simple, bilateral and alternate. Spines simple, triangular, compressed. Polyps 3–6 mm in transverse diameter ( Opresko, 2002).

Remarks. The genus Schizopathes Brook, 1889 is the only one, within the order, to harbor species that do not depend on hard substrates for fixation, presenting a modified hook for support in soft bottoms ( Wagner, 2015; Opresko, 1997). Some species of the genus Alternatipathes , and in particular, A. alternata (Brook) are almost identical to species of Schizopathes with the exception that they have a basal holdfast for attaching to hard substrates.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan ( Molodtsova, 2014).

References

Brook, G. (1889) Report on the Antipatharia collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Zoology, 32, 1.

Molodtsova, T. N. (2014) Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Antipatharia. Invertebrate Zoology, 11, 3 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / invertzool. 11.1.02

Opresko, D. M. (1997) Review of the genus Schizopathes (Cnidaria: Antipatharia: Schizopathidae) with a description of a new species from the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 110 (2), 157 - 166.

Opresko, D. M. (2002) Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part II. Schizopathidae. Zoologische Mededelingen, 76, 411 - 442.

Wagner, D. (2015) The spatial distribution of shallow-water (<150 m) black corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8, 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267215000202