Bathypathes Brook, 1889

Lü, Ting, Zhan, Zifeng, Li, Yang & Xu, Kuidong, 2024, Alternatipathes longispina sp. nov. and Bathypathes longicaulis sp. nov., two black corals (Antipatharia, Schizopathidae) from seamounts in the Western Pacific, Zootaxa 5437 (2), pp. 245-261 : 253

Genus Bathypathes Brook, 1889

Diagnosis (following Molodtsova et al. 2022). Corallum monopodial, unbranched or rarely branched, and pinnulate. Pinnules simple, arranged alternately or suboppositely in two anterolateral or lateral rows. Length of pinnules on stem and branches usually longest near the middle of the pinnulated section of the corallum. Striatum present or absent. Spines conical, smooth, usually simple, but in some cases forked or multiply knobbed at apex, with acute to slightly rounded apex. Spines often larger on polypar side of axis than on abpolypar side. Polyps elongated in the direction of the skeletal axis from 2 mm to as much as 17 mm in transverse diameter.

Type species. Bathypathes patula Brook, 1889