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Cladiella australis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Octocorallia
Order:	Alcyonacea
Family:	Alcyoniidae
Genus:	Cladiella
Species:	C. australis
Binomial name
Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)

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.

Secondary metabolites

Five new diterpenes with tricyclic skeletons of cladiellin have been isolated from this soft coral.

References

1. van Ofwegen, Leen (2014). "Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
2. "Cladiella australis (Finger blanching soft coral)". Eastern Cape Scuba Diving. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
3. Rao, C. Bheemasankara; Rao, D. Sreenivasa; Satyanarayana, C.; Rao, D. Venkata; Kassühlke, Katharina E.; Faulkner, D. John (1994). "New Cladiellane Diterpenes from the Soft Coral Cladiella australis of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands". Journal of Natural Products. 57 (5): 574–580. doi:10.1021/np50107a002.

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