Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria > Suborder Anenthemonae > Superfamily Edwardsioidea > Family Edwardsiidae

Edwardsia Quatrefages, 1842

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Edwardsioides*		synonym

Children

Edwardsia allmanni McIntosh, 1865
Edwardsia andresi Danielssen, 1890
Edwardsia arctica Carlgren, 1921
Edwardsia beautempsii Quatrefages, 1842
Edwardsia carlgreni Williams, 1981
Edwardsia claparedii (Panceri, 1869)
Edwardsia costata Danielssen, 1890
Edwardsia danica Carlgren, 1921
Edwardsia delapiae Carlgren & Stephenson, 1928
Edwardsia finmarchica Carlgren, 1921
Edwardsia fusca Danielssen, 1890
Edwardsia islandica Carlgren, 1921
Edwardsia ivelli Manuel, 1975
Edwardsia longicornis Carlgren, 1921
Edwardsia maroccana Carlgren, 1931
Edwardsia norvegica Carlgren, 1942
Edwardsia timida Quatrefages, 1842
Edwardsia tuberculata Dueben & Koren, 1847
Edwardsia vegae Carlgren, 1921
Edwardsia vitrea (Danielssen, 1890)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: athenerian burrowing anemones

Literature

original description	Quatrefages, A. (1842). Mémoire sur les Edwardsies (Edwardsia nob.) nouveau genre de la famille des actinies. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 18: 65-109.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 106-109
additional source	Reitzel, A. M.; Burton, P. M.; Krone, C.; Finnerty, J. R. (2007). Comparison of developmental trajectories in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: embryogenesis, regeneration, and two forms of asexual fission. Invertebrate Biology, 126(2): 99-112
additional source	Jensen, L. D. (1974). Environmental responses to thermal discharges from the Indian River Station, Indian River, Delaware. Electric Power Research Institute. Palo Alto., pp. 205.
additional source	Kumar, R. S. (2001). Ecological distribution and population structure of mud dwelling Edwardsia (Cnidaria: Actinaria) in a mangrove habitat of Cochin area, Kerala. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 98(2): 308-311
additional source	Cutress, C. E. 1971. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria and Zoanthidea. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 32: 89–93
additional source	Schmidt, H. (1974). On evolution in the Anthozoa. Proceedings of the Second International Coral Reef Symposium, 1, 533-560
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Hartlaub C. (1894). Die Coelenteraten Helgolands. Vorläufiger Bericht. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen n. ser. 1(1): 161-206.
additional source	Harms, J. (1993). Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight) - a review of recent records. Helgolaender Meeresuntersuchungen, 47(1): 1-34
additional source	Mark, E. L. (1884). Selections from embryological monographs. III. Polyps. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 9(3): 5-52
additional source	Gravier, C. (1922). Hexactinidés provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). Imprimerie de Monaco. Monaco., volume 63, pp. 104
additional source	Field, L. R. (1949). Sea Anemones and Corals of Beaufort, North Carolina. Duke University Press. Durham., pp. 39.
additional source	Gravier, C. (1918). Note preliminaire sur les Hexactiniaires recueillis au cours des croisieres de la Princesse-Alice et de l'Hirondelle de 1888 a 1913 inclusivement. Bull. Inst. Oceanogr., Monaco. 346:1-24.
additional source	Verrill, A. E. (1872-1874). Results of recent dredging expeditions on the coast of New England. American Journal of Science and Arts. ser. 3, 5: 1-16 [issue for January 1873; separate copies distributed 13 Dec. 1872]; 5: 98-106 [Feb. 1873]; 6: 435-441 [Dec. 1873]; 7: 38-46 [Jan. 1874]; 7: 131-138 [Feb. 1874]; 7: 405-414, pls 4-5 [April 1874]; 7: 498-505, pls 6-8 [May 1874].
additional source	Lütken, C. (1875). A revised catalogue of the Anthozoa and Calycozoa of Greenland. Authority of the Lords and Commissioners of the Admirality. London., chapter XX, pp. 186-187
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Verrill, A. E. (1871). On the distribution of marine animals on the southern coast of New England. American Journal of Science and Arts. (3)2: 357-362.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Dawson EW. (1992). The Coelenterata of the New Zealand region: a handlist for curators, students and ecologists. Occasional papers of the Hutton Foundation, New Zealand. 1: 1-68.

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Edwardsia Quatrefages, 1842. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100730