Cladiella australis

Cladiella australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Anthozoa
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 family Alcyoniidae. 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)". WoRMS. 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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[WoRMS-1] van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-21.

[2] "Cladiella australis (Finger blanching soft coral)". Eastern Cape Scuba Diving. Retrieved 2015-03-21.

[3] 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.