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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 5: 14 July 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.5.1
Page range: 401-422
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New species of deep-sea Antipatharians from the North Pacific (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia), Part 2

Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, 36 Nakhimovsky prospect, Moscow 117997, Russia
Cnidaria Anthozoa Antipatharia Schizopathidae new species North Pacific Coelenterata

Abstract

Five new species of deep-sea antipatharian corals are described from the North Pacific primarily collected off the coast of Alaska and on adjacent seamounts. All the species are referred to the family Schizopathidae. Described as new are: Alternatipathes mirabilis, Bathypathes ptiloides, Bathypathes tiburonae, Bathypathes alaskensis, and Parantipathes pluma. Illustrations of the type material of Bathypathes patula, B. patula var. plenispina and B. tenuis are provided for comparative proposes. Bathypathes patula var. plenispina is here recognized as a species distinct from B. patula, and B. tenuis is considered incertae sedis due to the poor condition of the type material.

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