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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Eledonidae |
| Genus: | Eledone |
| Species: | E. microsicya
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| Eledone microsicya Rochebrune, 1884 [1]
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References
edit- ^ •Rochebrune, A. T. 1884. Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (série 7), 8 (2). 74-122
- ^ "Eledone microsicya". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
- ^ 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
- ^ "UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Eledonenta Rochebrune, 1884".
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