Sinularia polydactyla
Appearance
Sinularia polydactyla | |
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Sinularia polydactyla in the Red Sea, 2011 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Octocorallia |
Order: | Alcyonacea |
Family: | Alcyoniidae |
Genus: | Sinularia |
Species: | S. polydactyla
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Binomial name | |
Sinularia polydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834)
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Sinularia polydactyla, known as finger leather coral, is a species of soft coral in the family Alcyoniidae.[1] Bio-active isolates called durumolides have been found in all samples of this coral.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sinularia polydactyla". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Aboutabl, El-Sayed A.; Azzam, Shadia M.; Michel, Camilia G.; Selim, Nabil M.; Hegazy, Mohamed F.; Ali, Abdel-Hamid A. M.; Hussein, Ahmed A. (2013). "Bioactive terpenoids from the Red Sea soft coral Sinularia polydactyla". Natural Product Research. 27 (23): 2224–2226. doi:10.1080/14786419.2013.805333. ISSN 1478-6427. PMID 23767460. S2CID 28077995.