Eledone microsicya

Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean.^[2] There is a view that because of the similarity in the skins of the single specimen of E. microsicya to the Musky Octopus Eledone moschata^[3] that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.^[4]

Eledone microsicya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Octopoda
Family:	Eledonidae
Genus:	Eledone
Species:	E. microsicya
Binomial name
Eledone microsicya Rochebrune, 1884 [1]
Synonyms
Eledonenta microsicya Rochebrune, 1884