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4. ELEDONE. 



Body small, oblong, without fins, rounded behind. Aperture 

 narrow. Ventral part of mantle united to the head by a cen- 

 tral fleshy band; nuchal band broad. — Head straight, indistinct, 

 narrower than the body. Eyes small, lateral, dorsal, promi- 

 nent, covered by the continuation of the skin. Beak com- 

 pressed. Ears slightly marked. — Arms long, tapering, webbed 

 at the base. Cups sessile, rather cylindrical, in a single line.— 

 Siphuncle elongate, conical, without superior bands or valve. 

 — Emitting a musky smell, and living in rocky places. 



EXe^wv;/ Aristot. ; Bolita^nas and Ozolis of the Ancients. 



Eledone Aldrovandus, De Moll. cap. 3. 1606; Leach., Zool. Misc. 



1817, iii. 137. ; Schweig. Natgsch 758. 1820 ; Rang, Man. 87. 



1829. 

 Eledon Cuvier, Regne Anim. 1817, ed. 2. 1830; Desh. in LuTnck. 



Hist. xi. 234. ; Pot. et Mick. Zool. i. 7. 1838 ; Verany. 

 Eledona Risso, Eur. Merid. iv. 2. 1826. 

 Polypus Rondelet., Gesner ; Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1838 ; Oken, 



Isis, 1838, 836. 

 Sepia sp. LinncBus. 

 Octopus sp. Lamarck. 

 Ozaina Plin. 



Heledone Menke, Cat. ed. 2. 1830. 

 Moschites Schneider, Samml. Verm. Abhandl. 1835. See Feruss. 



Bui. Sci. Nat. 1835-36. 

 Ozffina Rajin. Anal. Nat. 129. 1815 ; Monffort. 

 " Ozoema Rajinesque.^' 

 Eledonae (fam.) Risso, Eur. Merid. iv. 2. 1826. 



* Ocular Beards two. Central Arms equal. 



1. Eledone moschatus. 



Body oblong, acuminated behind, smooth, when excited bearded, 

 granular. Ocular cirri elongated, central. Arms long, slender, 

 compressed, equal. Cups far apart. — Colour very variable, with 

 three blackish spots in a horseshoe. Web edged with blue. 



EXedujvT] Aristot. lib. iv. cap. 1.; Camus, p. 117. ; Schneider, u. 130. 

 Ozaina Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. ix. cap. 30. 



Eledona Belon, De Aquatil. 333., La Nat. et Divers, de Pois. 337. 

 Polypi tertia species Rondelet. de Piscih. lib. xvii. cap. 8. 516. 



cap. 9. (1st species) 417. 

 Polypus tertia species Bossuet, De Aquat. lib. iv. 740. 871. 

 Polypus femina Seba, Mus. 3. f. 2. 6. 4. 



