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

Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean. 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 that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.

References

1. •Rochebrune, A. T. 1884. Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (série 7), 8 (2). 74-122
2. "Eledone microsicya". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
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. "UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Eledonenta Rochebrune, 1884".

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