Curled Octopus

Eledone Cirrosa (Lamarck)

Appears in

Mediterranean Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

About

Family Octopodidae

* Or deli ahtapot, meaning mad octopus, an indication that Turks disdain this species.

REMARKS Smaller (maximum length 40 cm) and lighter in colour than the two preceding species. Each tentacle is lined with a single row of suckers. There is a further species, Eledone moshata (Lamarck) which is smaller still and smells excessively of musk.

Part of

Cephalopods — Cuttlefish, Squid and Octopus