Sinularia polydactyla
Sinularia polydactyla in the Red Sea, 2011
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Octocorallia
Order: Alcyonacea
Family: Alcyoniidae
Genus: Sinularia
Species:
S. polydactyla
Binomial name
Sinularia polydactyla
(Ehrenberg, 1834)

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

  1. โ†‘ "Sinularia polydactyla". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. โ†‘ 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): 2224โ€“2226. doi:10.1080/14786419.2013.805333. ISSN 1478-6427. PMID 23767460. S2CID 28077995.


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