Eledone microsicya explained

Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean.[1] 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[2] that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eledone microsicya . 2012-03-11 . https://archive.today/20120707120537/http://202.123.56.178/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57068 . 2012-07-07 . dead .
  2. 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
  3. Web site: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Eledonenta Rochebrune, 1884.

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