Species Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Year
Allopathes denhartogi		Eastern Central Atlantic	2003
Allopathes desbonni		Northwest Pacific and Eas	1864
Allopathes robillardi		Western Indian Ocean	1891
Antipathes alopecuroides		Northwest Atlantic	1786
Antipathes arborea		Western Central Atlantic	1846
Antipathes assimilis		Chile.	1889
Antipathes atlantica	Grey sea fan black coral	Western Atlantic	1857
Antipathes barbadensis	Scraggly bottle brush black coral	Western Atlantic	1889
Antipathes boscii		Western Central Atlantic	1816
Antipathes brookii		Western Central Pacific	1899
Antipathes caribbeana	Kings coral	Western Atlantic	1996
Antipathes ceylonensis		Indian Ocean	1905
Antipathes chamaemorus		Northwest Pacific	1932
Antipathes chota		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Antipathes coronata		Western Indian Ocean	2019
Antipathes curvata		Western Central Pacific	1914
Antipathes cylindrica		Western Pacific	1889
Antipathes delicatula		Western Central Pacific	1896
Antipathes dendrochristos		Eastern Central Pacific	2005
Antipathes densa		Northwest Pacific	1909
Antipathes dichotoma	Split-pore black coral	Cosmopolitan.	1766
Antipathes dicrocrada		Cosmopolitan.	2019
Antipathes dissecta		Western Central Atlantic	1864
Antipathes dubia		Northwest Pacific	1889
Antipathes elegans		Indian Ocean	1905
Antipathes erinaceus	Bristly black coral	Northeast Atlantic	1905
Antipathes flabellum		Indian Ocean	1766
Antipathes fragilis		Atlantic and the Mediterr	1918
Antipathes fruticosa		Southwest Pacific	1857
Antipathes furcata		Western Atlantic	1857
Antipathes galapagensis		Eastern Pacific	1941
Antipathes gallensis		Eastern Indian Ocean	1905
Antipathes glutinata		Southwest Pacific	1923
Antipathes gracilis	Orange sea fan black coral	Western Atlantic	1860
Antipathes grandiflora		Northwest Pacific	1909
Antipathes grandis	Pine coral	Eastern Central Pacific	1928
Antipathes grayi		Eastern Atlantic	1902
Antipathes griggi		Eastern Central Pacific	2009
Antipathes herdmanni		Northwest Pacific	1909
Antipathes hirta	Bottle brush bush black coral	Western Atlantic	1857
Antipathes hypnoides		Western Indian Ocean	1889
Antipathes indistincta		Western Central Pacific	1914
Antipathes intermedia	Small feathery black coral	Pacific Ocean.	1889
Antipathes irregularis		Eastern Indian Ocean	1905
Antipathes lenta	Hair net black coral	Western Atlantic	1871
Antipathes lentipinna		Western Indian Ocean	1889
Antipathes longibrachiata		Indo-West Pacific	1914
Antipathes mediterranea		Mediterranean	1889
Antipathes minor		Chile.	1889
Antipathes nilanduensis		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Antipathes pauroclema		Northwest Pacific	1932
Antipathes plana		Pacific Ocean	1909
Antipathes plantagenista		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Antipathes polyhedra		Western Indian Ocean	2019
Antipathes pseudodichotoma		Northwest Pacific	1909
Antipathes regularis		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Antipathes rhipidion		Western Central Atlantic	1916
Antipathes rubra		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Antipathes rubusiformis		Eastern Central Atlantic	2004
Antipathes salicoides		Western Indian Ocean	1910
Antipathes sarothrum		Northwest Pacific	1932
Antipathes sealarki		Western Indian Ocean	1909
Antipathes sibogae		Western Central Pacific	1914
Antipathes simplex		Western Central Pacific	1896
Antipathes simpsoni		Myanmar.	1910
Antipathes speciosa		Southwest Atlantic	1889
Antipathes spinulosa		Western Central Pacific	1896
Antipathes sylospongia		Western Central Pacific	2020
Antipathes ternatensis		Western Central Pacific	1896
Antipathes thamnoides		Western Central Pacific	1896
Antipathes tristis		Western Central Atlantic	1870
Antipathes umbratica		Western Central Atlantic	1996
Antipathes valdiviae		Eastern Indian Ocean	1915
Antipathes viminalis		Eastern Central Atlantic	1902
Antipathes virgata	Twiggy black coral	Eastern Atlantic and Indo	1788
Antipathes zoothallus		Northwest Pacific	1932
Arachnopathes aculeata		Western Central Pacific	1889
Arachnopathes clathrata		Indian Ocean.	1766
Arachnopathes ericoides		Indian Ocean	1766
Blastopathes medusa		Indian Ocean	2020
Cirrhipathes anguina	Wire coral	Indo-Pacific.	1846
Cirrhipathes contorta		Western Central Pacific	1910
Cirrhipathes densiflora		Northwest Pacific	1909
Cirrhipathes diversa		Indo-West Pacific	1889
Cirrhipathes flagellum		Eastern Central Atlantic	1889
Cirrhipathes gardineri		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Cirrhipathes hainanensis		Northwest Pacific	1982
Cirrhipathes indica		Indian Ocean	1910
Cirrhipathes musculosa		Western Pacific	1910
Cirrhipathes nana		Western Central Pacific	1910
Cirrhipathes propinqua		Western Central Pacific	1889
Cirrhipathes rumphii		Indo-West Pacific.	1910
Cirrhipathes secchini		Southwest Atlantic	2002
Cirrhipathes sieboldi		Indo-Pacific.	1834
Cirrhipathes sinensis		Northwest Pacific	1984
Cirrhipathes spiralis	Spiral coral	Atlantic and Indo-Pacific	1758
Cirrhipathes translucens		Western Central Pacific	1910
Hillopathes ramosa		Western Central Pacific	1910
Pseudocirrhipathes mapia		Indo-West Pacific	2009
Pteropathes fragilis		Southwest Atlantic and th	1889
Stichopathes abyssicola		Eastern Atlantic and Nort	1902
Stichopathes aggregata		Western Central Pacific	1914
Stichopathes alcocki		Eastern Indian Ocean	1909
Stichopathes bispinosa		Eastern Indian Ocean	1910
Stichopathes bournei		Northwest Pacific	1909
Stichopathes ceylonensis		Indo-West Pacific	1905
Stichopathes contorta		Indo-West Pacific	1905
Stichopathes dissimilis	Divergent black coral	Northeast Atlantic	1902
Stichopathes echinulata		Indian Ocean and Eastern	1889
Stichopathes euoplos		Eastern Central Atlantic	1903
Stichopathes eustropha		Northwest Pacific	1931
Stichopathes filiformis		Eastern Atlantic and West	1868
Stichopathes flagellum	Whip black coral	Eastern Atlantic	1902
Stichopathes gracilis		Atlantic Ocean and Indo-W	1857
Stichopathes indica		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Stichopathes japonica		Western Indian Ocean	1909
Stichopathes longispina		Western Indian Ocean	1909
Stichopathes lutkeni	Black wire coral	Western Atlantic	1889
Stichopathes maldivensis		Western Indian Ocean	1903
Stichopathes occidentalis		Central Atlantic.	1860
Stichopathes papillosa		Eastern Indian Ocean	1905
Stichopathes paucispina		Western Central Pacific	1889
Stichopathes pourtalesi		Western Central Atlantic.	1889
Stichopathes regularis		Indian Ocean	1909
Stichopathes richardi	Richard's black coral	Northeast Atlantic	1902
Stichopathes robusta		Northeast Atlantic	1918
Stichopathes saccula		Western Pacific	1914
Stichopathes semiglabra		Western Pacific	1914
Stichopathes setacea		Northeast Atlantic	1860
Stichopathes seychellensis		Western Indian Ocean	1909
Stichopathes solorensis		Western Central Pacific	1914
Stichopathes spiessi		Northeast Pacific	1990
Stichopathes spinosa		Northwest Pacific	1909
Stichopathes variabilis		Western Pacific	1914

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Species Identification: Find Species

Family: Antipathidae (See list of species below)

Family: Antipathidae

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