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Updated 3/25/2013

Family Schizopathidae

HAWAII

Dendropathes intermedia

Chromis, Midway Atoll, 40 feet

 

Makapu'u, Oahu, 110 feet

 SMALL FEATHERY BLACK CORAL

Rare in dark crevices from 20 to 40 feet at Midway, normally deeper than 600 feet elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands.  Colonies are about 5 inches tall with branches in four planes with a diameter less than 2mm.  Known from Hawaii and Japan.  Formerly known as Antipathes intermedia.