Antipathes furcata Gray, 1857 Fig. 35 Antipathes furcata Gray, 1857: 291; Schultze, 1903:92; Opresko, 1974: 60–67, fig. 2; Loiola & Castro, 2001: 2–4, figs 2, 3, 4; Opresko, 2003: 487, fig. 3d; Opresko & Sanchez, 2005: 497, fig. 4; Molodtsova, 2006: 148. Type and type locality. BMNH 1843.2.6 or 8 (holotype, see Opresko, 2003), Madeira, depth unknown. Diagnosis. “Small colonies (less than ~ 20 cm in height) fan-shaped, branched mostly in one plane; with very long, straight, ascending branches. Larger colonies (20–40 cm in height) densely branched, in a thick plane with numerous overlapping branches. Branches directed upward and away from the centre, with most reaching to the top of the corallum; branch angles very narrow, 30° or less. Spines short, triangular, smooth, 0.05–0.1 mm tall and 0.07– 0.1 mm wide at their base; arranged in 6–8 rows with 30–40 spines per centimeter in each row. Spines occasionally bifid or forked. Polyps 0.7–1.0 mm in transverse diameter; arranged in a single series on one side of branches; 6–8 polyps per centimeter. Colonies white in color when alive.” (Opresko & Sanchez, 2005). Distribution. Madeira Island (Gray, 1857), Caribbean Sea (Opresko, 1974; Opresko & Sanchez, 2005), and Brazil (fig. 35) (Loiola & Castro, 2001); from 15 m, in Caribbean Sea (Opresko & Sanchez, 2005) to 2480 m, in Northeastern Atlantic (Molodtsova, 2006).

Published as part of Lima, Manuela M., Cordeiro, Ralf T. S. & Perez, Carlos D., 2019, Black Corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Southwestern Atlantic, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4692 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4692.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3528942