Clavelina cylindrica
Species of sea squirt
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Clavelina cylindrica is a species of tunicate in the genus Clavelina. It is found in shallow waters around Australia.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Tunicata |
| Class: | Ascidiacea |
| Order: | Aplousobranchia |
| Family: | Clavelinidae |
| Genus: | Clavelina |
| Species: | C. cylindrica |
| Binomial name | |
| Clavelina cylindrica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)[1] | |
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Research
Clavelina cylindrica has yielded two novel alkaloids in 1993, cylindricine A, the first naturally occurring pyrrolo[2, 1-j]quinoline, and cylindricine B, a pyrido-[2,1-j]-quinoline ring compound.[2] Further research the following year led to the discovery of further cylindricines C to G,[3] and a further three, H to J in 1995.[4]