ABSTRACT Alkaloids are only rarely found in marine coelenterates and they also appear to be restricted to animals within the order Zoanthidea. These organisms produce two types of alkaloids: a unique class of heteroaromatic amines known collectively as zoanthoxanthins responsible for their bright pigmentation, and the zoanthamine type with a original skeleton identified mainly from the genus Zoanthus. This work is an overview of the chemical and biological aspects related with these metabolites
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