M
t
om Jamaica (Colin 1978). An additional six
species of Anthipathes, t o species of Aphanipathes, Parantipathes testra
Leiopathes glaberrima ha
orted for the West Indi
ns et al.,1993;
Opresko, 1974) (Table 1
ck co
Bajo
Guanica
A bushy type black coral
Colin (1978) a
scrib
Antipathes sp. was later described by Opresko (1996) as A. caribbeana. T
has a mostly Caribbean distributio
R
t the
ut ha not yet been eported from
t e Gulf of Mexico (Opre
ow
from
than 100 m (Opresko, 1996). Nelson and Appeldoorn (1985
the
Antipathes sp. from the slope wall off Guánica, on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico.
C
aribbean
upp
efs
Bajo de Sico, Ponce, and
data).
onito Island in Puerto Rico (Mona Passage); Antipathes furcata, A. hirta and A.
anacetum from Bermuda and A. atlantica fr
w
sticha and
ve been rep
es (Cair
6). Plates 12 and 13 show bla
rals from
de Sico and
that was reported by
s an unde
ed
his species
n, from Colombia to the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto
ico, and throughou
Greater and Lesser Antilles, b
s
r
h
sko, 1996). Its depth range is kn n to span
11m to more
) reported
occurrence of
olonies of A. c
a have been observed from the
er slope re
in Guánica,
Vieques (García, unpublished
te 12
Pla
.
.
Plate 13
63