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Eledone
Sign in to saveEledone 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).
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderOctopoda
- FamilyEledonidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded5,683
Eledone ist eine kleine bis mittelgroße Gattung aus der Familie der Echten Kraken. Die einzelnen Arten leben im atlantischen Ozean, dem Mittelmeer und dem indischen Ozean.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 42
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Eledonidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, MZLU, NMV, MNHN, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Tunisia, United States, Greece, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Bresil, Italy, Iles Fidji
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Octopodidae
- Image
- Eledone cirrhosa1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Eledone
- taxon name
- Eledone
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Eledone
- taxon author citation
- Leach, 1817
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