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

Graneledone verrucosa (A. E. Verrill, 1881)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Graneledone*	Joubin, 1918	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Eledone verrucosa*	A. E. Verrill, 1881	synonym
*Moschites verrucosa*	(A. E. Verrill, 1881)	synonym
*Moschites verucosus*	(A. E. Verrill, 1881)	synonym
*Moschites verucosus var. media*	Joubin, 1918	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: warty octopus 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.

German: Warzenkrake

Literature

basis of record	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	CephBase
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	Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin 66:127–154.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Graneledone verrucosa (A. E. Verrill, 1881). 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:157019