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Eledone moschata (musky octopus)

Synonyms: Eledona moschata; Eledone microsicya; Eledonenta microsicya; Octopus moschatus (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean. 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 that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.
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Prey / Diet

Haliotis tuberculata (Tuberculate abalone)[1]
Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mediterranean mussel)[1]
Patella caerulea (Rayed Mediterranean Limpet)[1]
Sardina pilchardus (European pilchard)[1]
Venus verrucosa (Warty venus)[1]

Predators

Coryphaena hippurus (Mahi-mahi)[2]
Lago omanensis <Unverified Name>[3]
Mustelus punctulatus (Black spotted smooth hound)[4]
Tursiops truncatus (Bottlenosed Dolphin)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dicyema moschatum[5]
Dicyemennea eledones[5]
Nybelinia lingualis[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2DIET AND FEEDING OF DOLPHIN (CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS) IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WATERS, Enric Massutí, Salud Deudero, Pilar Sánchez and Beatriz Morales-Nin, BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 63(2): 329–341, 1998
♦ 3CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 4Reproductive biology and diet of Mustelus punctulatus (Risso, 1826) (Chondrichthyes: Triakidae) from the Gulf of Gabe&#768;s, central Mediterranean Sea, Bechir Saïdi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradaï and Abderrahman Bouaïn, Scientia Marina 73(2) June 2009, 249-258, Barcelona (Spain)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0