Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Antipatharia > Family Leiopathidae

Leiopathes Haime, 1849

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leiopathes expansa Johnson, 1899
Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper, 1792)
Leiopathes grimaldii Roule, 1902

Literature

original description	Haime, J. (1849). Sur les polypièroïde d'un Leiopathes glaberrima. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Series 3, 12: 224–226.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Opresko, D.M. (2001). Antipatharia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109
additional source	Opresko D.M. 1998. Three new species of Leiopathes (Cnidaria:Anthozoa:Antipatharia) from southern Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 31(1):99-111.
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Wagner, D.; Opresko, D. M. (2015). Description of a new species of Leiopathes (Antipatharia: Leiopathidae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa. 3974(2): 277.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101.
identification resource	Molodtsova T.N. 2011. A new species of Leiopathes (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Great Meteor seamount (North Atlantic). Zootaxa 3138: 52–64

Genbank

Citation

Molodtsova, T.; Opresko, D. (2025). World List of Antipatharia. Leiopathes Haime, 1849. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103305