Sinularia polydactyla

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]

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

References

1. "Sinularia polydactyla". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
2. 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.