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Megaleledonids
Megaleledonidae
Megaleledonidae is a family of octopuses in the superfamily Octopodoidea. It was formerly placed in the family Octopodidae sensu lato as the subfamily Megaleledoninae but more recent studies have raised this taxon as a valid family.
12 branches of this family, most-observed first
Graneledone
genusGraneledone
Pareledone
genusPareledone
Megaleledone
genusMegaleledone
Vosseledone
genusVosseledone
Adelieledone
genusAdelieledone
Tetracheledone
genusTetracheledone
Thaumeledone
genusThaumeledone
Bathypurpurata
genusBathypurpurata
Praealtus
genusPraealtus
Bentheledone
genusBentheledone
Velodona
genusVelodona
Microeledone
genusMicroeledone
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Megaleledonidae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 700000.