Bathypathes bifida Thomson, 1906

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Bathypathes bifida Thomson, 1906

Fig. 35

Bathypathes bifida Thomson, 1906: 79 ; Van Pesch, 1914: 5, 36, 37; Pax, 1932: 275; Opresko, 1974: 24, 51; Opresko, 2002: 415; Opresko, 2005: 130.

Type and type locality. Unknown. Lat.: 71º 22’S, Long.: 16º 34’W, March 18, 1904, Scottish Antarctic Expedition, depth not reported.

Diagnosis. Colony monopodial and pinnulate; pinnulation consisting solely of two long “pinnules” extending out almost horizontally from the top of the corallum and then curing upward (Opresko, pers. comm.).

Distribution. Subantarctic (Thomson, 1906), South Georgia Island, South Atlantic (fig. 35) (Smithsonian, USNM 100082, 79388, and 1202943, identified by D. M. Opresko; available in <http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ search/iz/>) from 2672 to 3210 m, and New Zealand (at NIWA—National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Re-search—D. M. Opresko pers. comm.).

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FIGURE 35. Geographic distribution of antipatharians species occurring in the Southwestern Atlantic not analyzed in the present work.