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Taxonomy
Family:
NAUTILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Nautiloidea (Subclass)
> Nautilida (Order)
> Nautilidae (Family)
> Nautilus (Genus)
> pompilius (Species)
Images: Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus, 1758
Washed up on Ninety Mile Beach, 1980's. 133mm. © rights reserved
Collected, Lord Howe Island, Australia (MA180917). © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
NAUTILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Nautiloidea (Subclass)
> Nautilida (Order)
> Nautilidae (Family)
> Nautilus (Genus)
> pompilius (Species)
Details: Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution:
Far North, Kermadec Islands
Notes:
Chambered Nautilus, Marine, Occasionally washes ashore on northern beaches
Description:
Compared to Nautilus macromphalus, Nautilus pompilius has calcified layer covering 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.52)

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
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