Genus Antipathes Pallas, 1766

Diagnosis (after Opresko 2019). Corallum sparsely to densely branched. Branching bushy, bramble-like, broomlike, or fan-shaped. Terminal branchlets of varying length; arranged irregularly, or bilaterally. Spines triangular or cone-shaped in lateral view; smooth or papillose; apex of spines simple or with one or more lobes or bifurcations.

Polyps less than 1 mm in transverse diameter.

Type Species. Antipathes dichotoma Pallas, 1766

Type Locality. Mediterranean Sea

Remarks. Antipathes dichotoma is the type species of the Antipathidae; however, molecular studies (Bo et al. 2018; Brugler et al. 2013), including this study (Fig. 2), have found that the species is more closely related to species in the Aphanipathidae than the Antipathidae . A formal review with integrated morphological and molecular data of all species in each family is required to resolve this taxonomic issue.