Terpenoid Constituents of Morphologically Similar Sponges in the Family Aplysillidae

Abstract

The sponge Darwinella sp, contains the known compounds ambliofuran (4) and aplysulphurin (3), and the new compound tetrahydroaplysulphurin-1 (5). Darwinella oxeata collected from various locations around New Zealand, contains aplysulphurin (3) and the new compounds tetrahydroaplysulphurins-1 (5), -2 (6), and -3 (7). Dendrilla rosea which is morphologically similar to the Darwinella sp. above, contains the known compounds ambliofuran (4), aplyroseols-1 (8),-2 (9),-3 (10),-5(11),-6 (12), and -7(15), as well as the new compounds dendrillol-1 (13), dendrillol-2 (14), dendrillol-3 (17) and dendrillol-4 (18). The structure of dendrillol-1 (13) has been confirmed by a single-crystal X-ray determination.