Eledone microsicya is a little-known species of octopus from the western Indian Ocean. There is a view that because of the similarity in the skins of the single specimen of E. microsicya to the Musky Octopus Eledone moschataSilas E.G. 1968 Cephalopoda of the West Coast of India, collected during the cruise of the research vessel Varuna, with a catalogue of species known from the Indian Ocean, Proc. Symp. Mollusca Part 1, Mar. Biol. Assn India, pp277-259 https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2365/1/Article_37.pdf that this is not a valid taxon and represents a Red Sea population of the otherwise Mediteraranean E. moschata.
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