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Tetracheledone
Tetracheledone spinicirrhus, the spiny-horn octopus, is a species of benthic octopus it is the only species in the monotypic genys Tetracheledone which is classified in the family Megaleledonidae. It is found in the tropical western North Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. It has a mantle length of 10cm and it can be found in areas with a substrate of sand and mud, at depths of between 200m and 400m. It...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 246406.