Cladiella australis
| Cladiella australis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Anthozoa |
| Subclass: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Alcyonacea |
| Family: | Alcyoniidae |
| Genus: | Cladiella |
| Species: | C. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)[1] | |
Cladiella australis is a species of soft coral in the Alcyoniidae family. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific. It is commonly known as the finger blanching soft coral because with the polyps extended it appears brown but when poked with a finger, the polyps retract into the leathery base tissue and the coral appears white.[2]
Secondary metabolites
Five new diterpenes with tricyclic skeletons of cladiellin have been isolated from this soft coral. [3]
References
- ↑ van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
- ↑ "Cladiella australis (Finger blanching soft coral)". Eastern Cape Scuba Diving. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
- ↑ Rao, C. Bheemasankara; Rao, D. Sreenivasa; Satyanarayana, C.; Rao, D. Venkata; Kassühlke, Katharina E.; Faulkner, D. John (1994). "New Cladiellane Diterpenes from the Soft Coral Cladiella australis of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands". Journal of Natural Products 57 (5): 574–580. doi:10.1021/np50107a002.
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