Species under Antipathes
n= 69
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Antipathes alopecuroides
Ellis & Solander, 1786
Northwest Atlantic
Antipathes arborea
Dana, 1846
Western Central Atlantic
Antipathes assimilis
(Brook, 1889)
Chile
Antipathes atlantica
Gray, 1857
Grey sea fan black coral Western Atlantic
Antipathes barbadensis
Brook, 1889
Scraggly bottle brush black coral Western Atlantic
Antipathes boscii
Lamouroux, 1816
Western Central Atlantic
Antipathes brookii
(Whitelegge, 1899)
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes caribbeana
Opresko, 1996
Kings coral Western Atlantic
Antipathes ceylonensis
(Thomson & Simpson, 1905)
Indian Ocean
Antipathes chamaemorus
Pax & Tischbierek, 1932
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes chota
Cooper, 1903
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes curvata
van Pesch, 1914
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes cylindrica
Brook, 1889
Western Pacific
Antipathes delicatula
Schultze, 1896
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes dendrochristos
Opresko, 2005
Eastern Central Pacific
Antipathes densa
Silberfeld, 1909
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes dichotoma
Pallas, 1766
Split-pore black coral Cosmopolitan
Antipathes dissecta
Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1864
Western Central Atlantic
Antipathes dubia
(Brook, 1889)
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes elegans
(Thomson & Simpson, 1905)
Indian Ocean
Antipathes erinaceus
(Roule, 1905)
Bristly black coral Northeast Atlantic
Antipathes flabellum
Pallas, 1766
Indian Ocean
Antipathes fragilis
Gravier, 1918
Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Antipathes fruticosa
Gray, 1857
Southwest Pacific
Antipathes furcata
Gray, 1857
Western Atlantic
Antipathes galapagensis
Deichmann, 1941
Eastern Pacific
Antipathes gallensis
Thomson & Simpson, 1905
Eastern Indian Ocean
Antipathes glutinata
Totton, 1923
Southwest Pacific
Antipathes gracilis
Gray, 1860
Orange sea fan black coral Western Atlantic
Antipathes grandiflora
Silberfeld, 1909
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes grandis
Verrill, 1928
Pine coral Eastern Central Pacific
Antipathes grayi
(Roule, 1902)
Eastern Atlantic
Antipathes griggi
Opresko, 2009
Eastern Central Pacific
Antipathes herdmanni
Cooper, 1909
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes hirta
Gray, 1857
Bottle brush bush black coral Western Atlantic
Antipathes hypnoides
(Brook, 1889)
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes indistincta
van Pesch, 1914
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes intermedia
(Brook, 1889)
Small feathery black coral Pacific Ocean
Antipathes irregularis
(Thomson & Simpson, 1905)
Eastern Indian Ocean
Antipathes lenta
Pourtalès, 1871
Hair net black coral Western Atlantic
Antipathes lentipinna
Brook, 1889
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes longibrachiata
van Pesch, 1914
Indo-West Pacific
Antipathes mediterranea
Brook, 1889
Mediterranean
Antipathes minor
(Brook, 1889)
Chile
Antipathes nilanduensis
Cooper, 1903
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes pauroclema
Pax & Tischbierek, 1932
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes plana
Cooper, 1909
Pacific Ocean
Antipathes plantagenista
(Cooper, 1903)
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes pseudodichotoma
Silberfeld, 1909
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes regularis
Cooper, 1903
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes rhipidion
Pax, 1916
Western Central Atlantic
Antipathes rubra
Cooper, 1903
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes rubusiformis
Warner & Opresko, 2004
Eastern Central Atlantic
Antipathes salicoides
Summers, 1910
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes sarothrum
Pax, 1932
Northwest Pacific
Antipathes sealarki
Cooper, 1909
Western Indian Ocean
Antipathes sibogae
van Pesch, 1914
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes simplex
(Schultze, 1896)
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes simpsoni
(Summers, 1910)
Myanmar
Antipathes speciosa
(Brook, 1889)
Southwest Atlantic
Antipathes spinulosa
(Schultze, 1896)
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes ternatensis
Schultze, 1896
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes thamnoides
(Schultze, 1896)
Western Central Pacific
Antipathes tristis
(Duchassaing, 1870)
Western Central Atlantic
Antipathes umbratica
Opresko, 1996
Western Central Atlantic
Antipathes valdiviae
Pax, 1915
Eastern Indian Ocean
Antipathes viminalis
Roule, 1902
Eastern Central Atlantic and Northwest Pacific
Antipathes virgata
Esper, 1788
Twiggy black coral Eastern Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Antipathes zoothallus
Pax, 1932
Northwest Pacific
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