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Eledone Octopuses
Eledone
Eledone is a genus of octopuses forming the only genus in the family Eledonidae. 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 (Eledone schultzei).
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Curled Octopus
speciesEledone cirrhosa
Musky Octopus
speciesEledone moschata
Brushtip Octopus
speciesEledone schultzei
Eledone gaucha
speciesEledone gaucha
Tropical Octopus
speciesEledone caparti
Combed Octopus
speciesEledone massyae
Spongetip Octopus
speciesEledone palari
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 324557.