Abstract
Antipatharians are still poorly documented in the southeastern Pacific, with just eleven species reported in Chilean waters, all of them distributed in subtidal areas from 70 to 2000 m depth (Häussermann & Försterra, 2007; Cañete & Häussermann, 2012; Araya et al. 2016a). Among the family Schizopathidae Brook, 1889, which is characterized by polyps elongated in the direction of the axis and having a transverse diameter of 2 mm or more (Opresko, 2002), the recently described deep-water genus Alternatipathes Molodtsova & Opresko, 2017, encompasses two recognized species, Alternatipathes alternata (Brook, 1889), reported from abyssal basins (2670 to 5089 m depth) of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and Alternatipathes bipinnata (Opresko, 2005), known from a few specimens collected in deep waters (1130 to 2846 m) off the Pacific coasts of northern Mexico and southern USA (Opresko, 2005; Molodtsova & Opresko, 2017).
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