WoRMS taxon details
Edwardsia elegans Verrill, 1869
AphiaID: 158235
AphiaID: 158235
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Athenaria (Infraorder) > Edwardsiidae (Family) > Edwardsia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Edwardsia Quatrefages, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] basis of record: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [details] basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] basis of record: Sebens, K.P. 1998. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Anthozoa, Actinaria, Corallimorparia, Ceriantharia, and Zoanthidea. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 141. 68 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: J.C. den Hartog & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bliss Island Point [details] Deer Island [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Minister's Island [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Generally, anthozoans are primarly carnivorous which prey on sea urchins, gastropods, bivalves, or crustaceans that crawl or swim into their grasp. [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to South Carolina [details] Habitat: shelf [details] Habitat: burrowing in sandy, muddy habitats [details] Reproduction: reproduce asexually through longitudinal fission and sexually (protandric hermaphrodites) [details] Type: type specimen from Bay of Fundy [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158235 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fautin, D. (2013). Edwardsia elegans Verrill, 1869. In: Fautin, Daphne G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158235 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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