Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Octopodiformes > Order Octopoda > Suborder Incirrata > Superfamily Octopodoidea > Family Eledonidae > Genus Eledone

Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck, 1798)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Octopus Cuvier, 1798

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eledone*	Leach, 1817	accepted genus name
*Hallia*	Rochebrune, 1884	junior homonym
*Hoylea*	Rochebrune, 1885	synonym
*Ozoena*	Rafinesque, 1814	synonym

Species group names

*Hallia sepioidea*	Rochebrune, 1884	synonym
*Ozoena aldrovandi*	Rafinesque, 1814	synonym; nom. nud.
*Sepia octopodia*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: pop blanc sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

Dutch: kleine achtarm sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: curled octopus; horned octopus; lesser octopus sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

French: elédone; élédone commune; pieuvre blanche sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Nördlicher Krake; Zirrenkrake sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

Greek: Λευκοχτάποδο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: pulpo blanco

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Norman M.D., Finn J.K. & Hochberg F.G. (2014). Family Octopodidae. pp. 36-215, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Moriyasu, M. (1984). Egg Clusters Observed in the Stomach Contents of Spawning Females of Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck) (Cephalopoda:Octopoda) from the North-western Mediterranean Sea. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 43(2):189-192.
additional source	Moriyasu, M. ; Benhalima, K. (1993). Morphological and Morphometrical Observations on the Mantle Stylet of Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck,1798) (Cephalopoda:Oetopoda). VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 52(2): 149-I54.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck, 1798). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140600