Eledone microsicya | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Octopoda |
Family: | Eledonidae |
Genus: | Eledone |
Species: | E. microsicya
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Binomial name | |
Eledone microsicya
Rochebrune, 1884
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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]