Cladopathidae Kinoshita 1910

Loiola, Laia, 2008, Two New Species of Chrysopathes (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Western Atlantic, Zootaxa 1707, pp. 49-59 : 50

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Cladopathidae Kinoshita 1910
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Diagnosis. Polyps with six primary mesenteries and no secondary mesenteries. Actinopharynx may be present or absent. Polyps elongated in direction of skeletal axis, 1.5–6 mm in transverse diameter. Corallum monopodial or branched, and pinnulate. Pinnules simple or with subpinnules.

Remarks. The subfamily Cladopathinae Kinoshita was first given family-level status by Schultze (1896).

Kinoshita, K. (1910) On a new antipatharian Hexapathes heterosticha n. gen. and n. sp. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 7, 231 - 234.

Schultze, L. S. (1896) Beitrag zur Systematik der Antipatharien. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 23, 1 - 40.