Cladiella krempfi

Cladiella krempfi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Octocorallia
Order: Alcyonacea
Family: Alcyoniidae
Genus: Cladiella
Species: C. krempfi
Binomial name
Cladiella krempfi
(Hickson, 1919)[1]

Cladiella krempfi is a species of soft coral in the Alcyoniidae family. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific and was first described by the British zoologist Sydney John Hickson in 1919.

Secondary metabolites

Four unusual diterpenes with novel pyran rings have been found in this soft coral, and these compounds also accumulate in the tissues of the nudibranch Tritoniopsis elegans that feeds on the coral.[2]

References

  1. van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Cladiella krempfi (Hickson, 1919)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  2. Cai, You-Sheng; Yao, Li-Gong; Di Pascale, Antonio; Irace, Carlo; Mollo, Ernesto; Taglialatela-Scafati, Orazio; Guo, Yue-Wei (2013). "Polyoxygenated diterpenoids of the eunicellin-type from the Chinese soft coral Cladiella krempfi". Tetrahedron. 69 (9): 2214–2219. doi:10.1016/j.tet.2012.12.051.
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