Cladopathidae Kinoshita 1910

Diagnosis. Polyps with six primary mesenteries and no secondary mesenteries. Actinopharynx may be present or absent. Polyps elongated in direction of skeletal axis, 1.5–6 mm in transverse diameter. Corallum monopodial or branched, and pinnulate. Pinnules simple or with subpinnules.

Remarks. The subfamily Cladopathinae Kinoshita was first given family-level status by Schultze (1896).