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>>7333904
Honestly I just see the Japanese name of Zelda II's Stalfos to be a correction of the name of Stalfos from the first game - it comes from skeleton/"sukeruton" (スケルトン) and skull/"sukaru" (スカル) - but then the ALttP devs took them as two different enemies mere three games in and it's been Stalfos instead of Stalfon ever since. Several Zelda enemies like Gohma or Moldorm got re-spelled over the years so I wouldn't put it outside the sacred realm of possibility. Then again, it's hard to say for sure with Darknut/Ironknuckle thing, and several other Zelda II enemies like Ache/Acheman are derived from Zelda I enemies like Keese/Vire, so..