Sarcophyton glaucum
Leather coral
Accession: OMN-MAR-0095
- Family
- Sarcophytidae
- Category
- Soft corals
- Geographic origin
- Duqm, Al Wusta
- Sampling depth
- 27.8 m
- Collection date
- 2025-07-02
- Holding institution
- National Heritage Collection (Demo)
Overview
Scientific identity
All values on this page are synthetic demonstration data, generated for this prototype.
Taxonomy
Colony form
Encrusting base with a broad, lobed capitate polyparium.
Polyps
Retractile polyps distributed over the colony surface.
Colour in life
Cream to greyish
Resource network
This record
OMN-MAR-0095
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GIS & sampling
Sampling location & depth
Where this organism was collected, and at what depth in the water column.
Sampling depth explorer
27.8 m · this record
27.9 m
20.7 m
31.1 m
25.8 m
- Recorded depth
- 27.8 m
- Sampling method
- SCUBA survey
Schematic depth scale — no bathymetric profile is claimed. Other columns are recorded depths of the same species (demo).
Environment
Water conditions at sampling
Single set of measurements recorded during the sampling event on 2025-07-02 — not a monitoring series.
Water temperature
27.7 °C
Recorded at sampling · Duqm, Al Wusta
Sampling depth 27.8 m · SCUBA survey
Values are synthetic demonstration measurements with realistic units; no time series exists to chart.
Biochemistry
Extract & compound explorer
Select an extract to see its fractions and any assay results. All entries are synthetic demonstration data — no bioactivity is claimed.
Isolated fractions · EXT-0095-M
Polar fraction from liquid–liquid partitioning. Structural elucidation pending — no formula or structure is claimed.
Bioactivity assays
Antibacterial screening (disk diffusion)
ASY-0095-1Target: Reference bacterial panel
No inhibition zone recorded
Negative result at tested concentration (demo). No bioactivity is claimed.
No chromatograms or spectra are held for these extracts, so none are drawn. Compound identities, formulas and structures remain unclaimed until characterization is complete.
Genomics
Genomic data
DNA barcodes and sequence records linked to this specimen. Sequences are synthetic demonstration output, not real results.
Not yet sequenced
Material is preserved and available for molecular work, but no sequence data is linked to this record yet.
Biobank
Physical sample preservation
Registered material from this specimen and how it is preserved. Exact freezer positions and rack locations are restricted to authorized staff.
Preserved samples
2
−80 °C / LN₂
1
Holding laboratories
2
Available
2
Ethanol-preserved specimen
SPC-M-0095
- Preservation
- Ethanol, room temperature
- Quantity
- 3 items
- Preserved
- 2025-07-07
Marine Science Centre — Biobank (Demo)
Frozen tissue for DNA
TIS-M-0095
- Preservation
- Liquid nitrogen
- Quantity
- 1 tubes
- Preserved
- 2025-07-22
National Heritage Collection — Store (Demo)
Sample lifecycle
2025-07-02 · Field sampling — Duqm, Al Wusta — collected at 27.8 m.
2025-07-07 · Registration — Registered at National Heritage Collection (Demo) as OMN-MAR-0095.
2025-07-07 · Preservation — Material preserved: Ethanol, room temperature · Liquid nitrogen.
Sample identifiers, quantities and laboratories are synthetic demonstration values; no storage monitoring history is claimed.
Research
Research & provenance
How this record came to be, and literature linked to it.
Data provenance
Sampling event
Duqm, 2025-07-02 · 27.8 m · by K. Al-Busaidi
Curated record
National Heritage Collection (Demo)
Preserved material
2 samples across 2 laboratories (demo)
Research data
Biochemical extracts (demo)
No publications linked
Publications citing this specimen will appear here once they are added by the holding institution.
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