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Taxonomy
Family:
NAUTILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Nautiloidea (Subclass)
> Nautilida (Order)
> Nautilidae (Family)
> Nautilus (Genus)
> macromphalus (Species)
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Taxonomy
Family:
NAUTILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Nautiloidea (Subclass)
> Nautilida (Order)
> Nautilidae (Family)
> Nautilus (Genus)
> macromphalus (Species)
Details: Nautilus macromphalus G.B. Sowerby II, 1849
Distribution:
Far North, Kermadecs, NE Australia, New Caledonia
Notes:
Chambered Nautilus, Marine, Occasionally washes ashore on northern beaches
Description:
Compared to Nautilus pompilius, Nautilus macromphalus has a deep umbilicus

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References and Publications
  • Reid, A.L., Wilson, N.G. 2015 Octopuses of the Kermadec Islands: Discovery and description of a new member of the Octopus ‘vulgaris’ complex (O. jollyorum, sp. nov.) and the first description of a male Callistoctopus kermadecensis (Berry, 1914), Bulletin of the Auckland Museum, 20 (p.351)
  • Jereb, P., Roper, C.F.E. 2005 Cephalopods of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date. Chambered Nautiluses and Sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosephiidae and Spirulidae), FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, FAO, Rome, Italy, 4(1) (p.53)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.439)
  • Sowerby II, G.B. 1849 Monograph of the genus Nautilus, Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells, 2(9) (p.463) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil