Eledone microsicya

Eledone microsicya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Genus: Eledone
Species: E. microsicya
Binomial name
Eledone microsicya
Rochebrune, 1884 [1]
Synonyms
  • Eledonenta microsicya Rochebrune, 1884

Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean.[2] There is a view that because of the similarity in the skins of the single specimen of E. microsicya to the Musky Octopus Eledone moschata[3] that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.[4]

References

  1. •Rochebrune, A. T. 1884. Etude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris, (series 7) 8 (2). 74-122
  2. http://202.123.56.178/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57068
  3. Silas E.G. 1968 Cephalopoda of the West Coast of India, collected during the cruise of the research vessel Varuna, with a catalogue of species known from the Indian Ocean, Proc. Symp. Mollusca Part 1, Mar. Biol. Assn India, pp277-259 http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2365/1/Article_37.pdf
  4. http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535851


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