| Sinularia polydactyla | |
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| Sinularia polydactyla in the Red Sea, 2011 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Malacalcyonacea |
| Family: | Alcyoniidae |
| Genus: | Sinularia |
| Species: | S. polydactyla
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| Binomial name | |
| Sinularia polydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834)
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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
References
- "Sinularia polydactyla". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- 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): 2224–2226. doi:10.1080/14786419.2013.805333. ISSN 1478-6427. PMID 23767460. S2CID 28077995.