Eledone microsicya

{{Short description|Species of mollusc}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Eledone microsicya

| authority = Rochebrune, 1884 •Rochebrune, A. T. 1884. Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (série 7), 8 (2). 74-122

| synonyms =

• Eledonenta microsicya Rochebrune, 1884

}}

Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean.{{Cite web |url=http://202.123.56.178/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57068 |title=Eledone microsicya |access-date=2012-03-11 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707120537/http://202.123.56.178/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57068 |archive-date=2012-07-07 |url-status=dead }} There is a view that because of the similarity in the skins of the single specimen of E. microsicya to the Musky Octopus Eledone moschataSilas E.G. 1968 Cephalopoda of the West Coast of India, collected during the cruise of the research vessel Varuna, with a catalogue of species known from the Indian Ocean, Proc. Symp. Mollusca Part 1, Mar. Biol. Assn India, pp277-259 http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2365/1/Article_37.pdf that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535851|title=UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Eledonenta Rochebrune, 1884}}