Animalia > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Alcyonacea > Anthothelidae > Erythropodium > Erythropodium caribaeorum

Erythropodium caribaeorum (Encrusting gorgonian)

Synonyms: Erythropodium carybaeorum; Massarella vera; Sympodium verum; Xaenia caribaeorum; Xenia caribaeorum

Wikipedia Abstract

Erythropodium caribaeorum (commonly known as the encrusting gorgonian or encrusting polyps) is a species of sessile marine animal in the Erythropodium genus. It inhabits coral reefs and rocky bottoms in the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Florida, growing at depths of 0.5 to 25 metres. E. caribaeorum is of interest from a drug discovery perspective because it produces eleutherobin, a diterpene glycoside with potential anticancer activity.
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Predators

Coralliophila caribaea (Caribbean coralsnail)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Monaco, Carlos, Estrella Villamizar, and Samuel Narciso. "Selectivity of preys of Coralliophila abbreviata and C. caribaea in coral reefs of the National Park Morrocoy, Venezuela: an experimental approximation/Selectividad de presas de Coralliophila abbreviata y C. caribaea en arrecifes coralinos del Parque Nacional Morrocoy, Venezuela: una aproximacion experimental." Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 38.1 (2010): 57+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0