''Eledone microsicya'' is a little-known species of

octopus An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttle ...

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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microsicya Molluscs described in 1884 {{octopus-stub