WoRMS taxon details
Edwardsia sipunculoides (Stimpson, 1853)
AphiaID: 158241
AphiaID: 158241
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinia sipunculoides Stimpson, 1853 (basionym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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] additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Manicouagan [details] Minister's Island [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 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: circumarctic boreal to Massachusetts [details] Habitat: shelf [details] Habitat: burrowing in sandy, muddy habitats [details] Reproduction: reproduce asexually through longitudinal fission and sexually (protandric hermaphrodites) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158241 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fautin, D. (2013). Edwardsia sipunculoides (Stimpson, 1853). 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=158241 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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