Table 16. Li
dies.
Modified from Cairns et al. (1993).
Warner
et al.,1985
st of black corals (Anthozoa : Antipatharia) reported from the West In
Species
Distribution
Depth
References
Range
Antipathes atlantica
West Indies and NW Gulf of Mexico
10 - 115 m
Brook, 1989;
1981; Rezak
Antipathes columnaris
Dominican Republic, Lesser Antilles
US Virgin Islands, Bahamas, NE South
America, NW Caribbean
73 - 567 m
Opresco, 197
Antipathes gracilis
West Indies, SW Florida
30 m
Brook, 1989; Warn
1981
Antipathes tanacetum
Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, Florida
Brazil, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia
46 - 915 m
Opresco, 1
Antipathes hirta
Puerto Rico, NW Cuba, Guyana,
Venezuela, Trinidad, Jamaica, Mexico
13 - 357 m
Opresco, 1972, C
1978; Warner 198
Antipathes rigida
Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, NW Cuba
64 - 640 m
Opresco, 1
Aphanipathes filix
Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, NW Cuba
Opresco, 1972
Antipathes furcata
throughout Caribbean, NW Cu
4
er
972
olin
1
972
ba
30 - 72 m
Opresco, 1974
972
5
Opresco, 1974
Antipathes caribbeana
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands,
throughout Caribbean
13 – 92 m
Opresco, 1996
Antipathes pennacea
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Colin, 1978
Antipathes salix
Lesser Antilles, NW Cuba, W Florida
107 - 333 m
Opresco, 1
Aphanipathes abietina
Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, NW Cuba,
Opresco, 1972
SE Louisiana
31 - 310 m
Rezak et al., 198
Aphanipathes humilis
Lesser Antilles, Dry Tortugas, NW
Cuba, SE Louisiana
129 - 491 m
Opresco, 1972
Aphanipathes thyoides
NW Cuba, Yucatan-Mexico
Opresco, 1972
Stichopathes lutkeni
throughout Caribbean, SW Florida
Brook, 1989;
Rezak et al.,1985
Bathypathes patula
Cosmopolitan
100 - 5000 m
Brook, 1989;
Opresco, 1974
Parantipathes tetrasticha
Puerto Rico, Guyana, Yucatan-Mexico
175 - 428 m
Opresco, 1972
Leiopathes glaberrima
Bahamas, Florida, Yucatan-Mexico
Mediterranean, NE Gulf of Mexico
176 - 549 m
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