Leiopathes Explained

Leiopathes is a genus of hexacorallians belonging to the anthozoan clade Antipatharia. It is the only genus in the Leiopathidae family. The genus name means "smooth disease".^[1]

Species

• Leiopathes acanthophora Opresko, 1998
• Leiopathes annosa Wagner and Opresko, 2015^[2]
• Leiopathes bullosa Opresko, 1998
• Leiopathes expansa Johnson, 1899
• Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper, 1788)^[3]
• Leiopathes grimaldii Roule, 1902
• Leiopathes montana Molodtsova, 2011
• Leiopathes secunda Opresko, 1998
• Leiopathes valdiviae (Pax, 1915)

Notes and References

1. Molodtsova, T.; Opresko, D. (2020). World List of Antipatharia. Leiopathes Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2020-12-16.
2. Wagner, D.; Opresko, D. M. (2015). Description of a new species of Leiopathes (Antipatharia: Leiopathidae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa. 3974(2): 277., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.11
3. Jacob van der Land (2013). "Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper, 1788)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 June 2017.