Cladiella krempfi

Cladiella krempfi is a species of soft coral in the family Alcyoniidae. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific and was first described by the British zoologist Sydney John Hickson in 1919.

Cladiella krempfi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Subphylum:	Anthozoa
Class:	Octocorallia
Order:	Alcyonacea
Family:	Alcyoniidae
Genus:	Cladiella
Species:	C. krempfi
Binomial name
Cladiella krempfi (Hickson, 1919)[1]

Secondary metabolites

Four unusual diterpenes with novel pyran rings have been found in this soft coral, and these compounds also accumulate in the tissues of the nudibranch Tritoniopsis elegans that feeds on the coral.^[2]