Eledone

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Eledone cirrhosa1.jpg

| image_caption = Eledone cirrhosa

| parent_authority = Leach, 1817|

| taxon=Eledone

| authority = (Leach, 1817)

| type_species = Octopus cirrhosus

| type_species_authority = Lamarck, 1789

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

| synonyms = *Aphrodoctopus Roper & Mangold, 1991

• Eledona Risso, 1854
• Hoylea Rochebrune, 1885
• Ozoena Rafinesque, 1814

}}

Eledone is a genus of octopuses forming the only genus in the family Eledonidae.{{cite journal |last1=Ibáñez |first1=Christian M. |last2=Fenwick |first2=Mark |last3=Ritchie |first3=Peter A. |last4=Carrasco |first4=Sergio A. |last5=Pardo-Gandarillas |first5=M. Cecilia |title=Systematics and Phylogenetic Relationships of New Zealand Benthic Octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodoidea) |journal=Frontiers in Marine Science |volume=7 |year=2020 |issn=2296-7745 |doi=10.3389/fmars.2020.00182|doi-access=free }} 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).{{Cite web|url=http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/masdea/masdea.php?p=taxdetails&id=225588|title = African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Eledone thysanophora Voss, 1962}}