Hexapathes alis, Molodtsova, 2006

Molodtsova, Tina N., 2006, New species of Hexapathes Kinoshita, 1910 (Anthozoa, Antipatharia, Cladopathidae) from the South-West Pacific, Zoosystema 28 (3), pp. 597-606 : 604

In the presence of the secondary subpinnules on the anterior primaries Hexapathes alis n. sp. resembles H. australiensis . The new species differs from the latter by having thicker pinnules (0.9-1.3 mm and 0.5, correspondingly) as well as by having longer (up to 15 cm and up to 10.5 cm) curved lateral pinnules. Appearance of the colony, longer lateral pinnules resemble those of H. heterosticha and H. hivaensis n. sp. However these two species could be easily distinguished from H. alis n. sp. by the absence of secondary pinnules and longer anterior pinnules (up to 11 cm in compare with up to 6 cm in H. alis n. sp.) arranged in two distinctive rows.