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

Edwardsia timida Quatrefages, 1842

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Edwardsia*	Quatrefages, 1842	accepted genus name
*Edwardsioides*		synonym

Species group names

*Edwardsia callianthus*	Rawlinson, 1935	synonym
*Edwardsia harassei*		synonym
*Edwardsiella dixoni*		synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: timid burrowing anemone

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	Manuel, R. L. (1977). A redescription of Edwardsia beautempsi and E. timida (Actiniaria: Edwardsidae). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 18, 483-497
additional source	Rodríguez, E.; Daly, M. (2010). Phylogenetic relationships among deep-sea and chemosynthetic sea anemones: Actinoscyphyiidae and Actinostolidae (Actiniaria: Mesomyaria). Public Library of Science One, 5, 6, 1-8
additional source	Manuel, R. L. (1981). British Anthozoa. London: Academic Press. 241 pp. (Synopses of the British Fauna).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
additional source	Fischer, P. (1874). Recherches sur les actinies des cotes [sic] océaniques de France. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 10, 193-244
additional source	Williams, R. B. (1981). A sea anemone, Edwardsia meridionalis sp. nov., from Antarctica and a preliminary revision of the genus Edwardsia De Quatrefages, 1841 (Coelenterata: Actiniaria). Records of the Australian Museum (Sydney), 33(6): 325-360
additional source	Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia.
additional source	Manuel, R. L. (1981). On the identity of the sea anemone Scolanthus callimorphus Gosse, 1853 (Actiniaria: Edwardsiidae). Journal of Natural History, 15, 265-276
additional source	Stephens, J. (1905). A list of Irish Coelenterata, including the Ctenophora. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 25: 25-92.
additional source	Haddon, A. C. (1889). A revision of the British Actiniae. Part I. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 4, 2, 297-361
additional source	Picton, B. E. (1985). Anthozoans (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) new to Ireland and new records of some rarely recorded species. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 21(11): 484-488
additional source	Andres, A. (1880). Intorno all'Edwardsia Claparedii (Halcampa Claparedii Panc.). Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 5, 3, 221-236
additional source	Walton, C. L.; Rees, O. M. (1913). Some rare and interesting sea anemones from Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 10, 60-69
additional source	Forbes, E., 1843. Retrospective comments. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 12 : 40-42.
additional source	Fischer, P. (1889). Note sur une nouvelle espèce du genre Edwardsia, Quatrefages. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 43, 310-311
additional source	Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp.
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
additional source	Appellöf, A. (1891). Zur Kenntniss der Edwardsien. Bergens Museums Aarsberetning, (4): 3-31
additional source	Dixon, G. Y. (1886). Notes on two Irish specimens of Edwardsia timida (Quatrefages). Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 5, new series, 2, 100-106
additional source	Daly, M. (2002). A systematic revision of Edwardsiidae (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). Invertebrate Biology, 121(3): 212-225
additional source	Faurot, L. (1895). Études sur l'anatomie, l'histologie et le développement des actinies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale, 3, 3, 43-262
additional source	Williams, R. B. (2003). Locomotory behaviour and functional morphology of Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Edwardsiidae): a contribution to a comparative study of burrowing behaviour in athenarian sea anemones. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 437-484
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Andres, A. (1881). Intorno all'Edwardsia Claparedii (Halcampa Claparedii Panc.). Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 2, 2, 123-142
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.

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External Links

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Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Edwardsia timida 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:100892