🦋 Family

Sphenopidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Cnidaria › Anthozoa › Zoantharia › Sphenopidae

Palythoa mutuki is a widespread Indo-Pacific and South American zoanthid whose extract has anti-dengue-virus activity.

Palythoa tuberculosa is a sand-encrusting Indo-Pacific colonial zoanthid that may contain the dangerous toxin palytoxin.

Palythoa toxica is an encrusting euryhaline zoanthid first discovered in shallow brackish pools on Maui, Hawaii.

Related Families

Parazoanthidae 3 species Zoanthidae 1 species

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