Genus Eledone Leach, 1817

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eledone Leach, W.E. 1817. Synopsis of the orders, families and genera of the class Cephalopoda. Zoological Miscellany 3: 137-141 [137].

  Type species:

   Octopus moschatus Lamarck, 1798 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

General References

Robson, G.C. 1932. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 2. The Octopoda (excluding the Octopodinae). London : British Museum (Natural History) 359 pp. 6 pls. [256]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2014	OCTOPODIDAE	07-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Mark Norman
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED