Cladiella australis
Species of coral
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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]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Malacalcyonacea |
| Family: | Alcyoniidae |
| Genus: | Cladiella |
| Species: | C. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)[1] | |
Secondary metabolites
Five new diterpenes with tricyclic skeletons of cladiellin have been isolated from this soft coral. [3]
