Odontaster validus

McClintock, J.B., Pearse, J.S., and Bosch, I., Population structure and energetics of the shallow-water antarctic sea star Odontaster validus in contrasting habitats, Mar. Biol., 99, 235, 1988. 

Only one report of Antarctic soft coral secondary metabolite chemistry has appeared in the literature. As described above, the stoloniferan coral Clavularia frankliniana has been demonstrated to produce fatty glyceride esters, chimyl alcohol (Structure 7.79) in particular, that are also found in its predator, the nudibranch Tritoniella belli.44 Chimyl alcohol has been investigated in ecological bioassays and has been implicated in deterring predation by the omnivorous sea star Odontaster validus.44... 

Vazquez, M. J., Quinoa, E., Riguera, R., San-Martin, A., and Darias, J., Antarctic marine metabolites new polyhydroxylated steroidal glycosides from the starfish Odontaster validus, Liebigs Ann. Chem., 1257, 1993. 

Pearse, J.S. (1969) Slow developing embryos and larvae of the antarctic sea star Odontaster validus. Marine Biology, 3,110-116. 

Waschecheck, 1969 Rodriguez, 1995). This may also be the case for pacifigorgiol, which seems to be the sole representative of this skeleton, an isomer of that of valer-enane (see above). Ainigmaptilones A and B are powerful repellents that protect the Antarctic coral Ainigmaptilon antarcticus, which lacks calcareous spicules, from predation by the starfish Odontaster validus (Iken and Baker, 2003). 

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