Eledone

Eledone
Eledone cirrhosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Subfamily: Eledoninae
Genus: Eledone
Leach, 1817
Species

8 or 9, see text.

Synonyms

Hoylea
Ozoena

Eledone is a genus of octopuses in the family Octopodidae. It is mainly distributed in the northern and southern Atlantic Ocean, with one species, E. palari, described from the southwestern Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean in waters around Indonesia and Australia and another, E. microsicya, from the western Indian Ocean. One species, E. thysanophora, is now regarded as a synonym of the brush-tipped octopus (Aphrodoctopus schultzi).[1]

Species

The species listed above with an asterisk (*) are questionable and need further study to determine if they are valid species or synonyms.

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