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Taxonomy
Family:
ARGONAUTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Octopodiformes (Superorder)
> Octopoda (Order)
> Incirrata (Suborder)
> Argonautoidea (Superfamily)
> Argonautidae (Family)
> Argonauta (Genus)
> nodosus (Species)
Images: Argonauta nodosus Lightfoot, 1786
Washed up on beach, near Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay, NZ. D. Houston
Collected in 1920's, Shoal Bay, Great Barrier Island, NZ (MA131292). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected in 1920's, Shoal Bay, Great Barrier Island, NZ (MA131292). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Alive, off Tutukaka, Northland, NZ. VetAroundTheWorld.com
Taxonomy
Family:
ARGONAUTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Octopodiformes (Superorder)
> Octopoda (Order)
> Incirrata (Suborder)
> Argonautoidea (Superfamily)
> Argonautidae (Family)
> Argonauta (Genus)
> nodosus (Species)
Details: Argonauta nodosus Lightfoot, 1786
Size/Grows to:
Length 140mm, Width 105mm. with records over 240mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Also Australia. On sandy beaches
Geographical Range:
KACFM
Notes:
Paper Nautilus, Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Spurgeon, A.M., Burch, K.W., Carson, K., Walton, K., Plaisted, J. Nov/2017 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 29 (p.14)
  • Woods, K. Nov/2002 Argonaut, Cookia, 13 (p.55)
  • O'Shea, S. 1999 The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda), NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, Wellington, 112 (p.90)
  • Mienis, H.K. Nov/1998 On the Authorship of Argonauta nodosa, Poirieria, 23 (p.14)
  • Oct/1981 Argonauta nodosa collected at Plimmerton, Cookia, 4(3) (p.23)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.445)
  • Douglas, W.N. Mar/1974 The Paper Nautilus, Argonauta nodosa Soalnder, 1786, Poirieria, 7(3) (p.67)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil