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Nautilus pompilius

Nautilus pompilius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Order:Nautilida
Family:Nautilidae
Genus:Nautilus
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Synonyms
  • Nautarius
    Dumeril, 1806
  • Nautilus
    Schneider, 1784
    (never published; rejected generic name)
The genus Nautilus contains four species of nautiluses, which differ significantly in terms of morphology from those placed in the sister. Nautiluses are believed to be "living fossils", due to the fact that they existed in the time of dinosaurs. They are related to cuttlefish and some types of squid. taxon Allonautilus.

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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Cephalopoda
Cuvier, 1797

Orders

Subclass Nautiloidea
  • †Plectronocerida
  • †Ellesmerocerida
  • †Actinocerida
  • †Pseudorthocerida
  • †Endocerida
  • †Tarphycerida
  • †Oncocerida

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Nautilina
Agassiz, 1847

Family: Nautilidae
Blainville, 1825

Genera

Allonautilus
Nautilus

Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος
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Nautilina
Agassiz, 1847

Family: Nautilidae
Blainville, 1825

Genera

Allonautilus
Nautilus

Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος
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Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)

Carl von Linné, Alexander Roslin, 1775. Currently owned by and hanging at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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N. belauensis

Binomial name
Nautilus belauensis
Saunders, 1981

The Palau Nautilus (Nautilus belauensis
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N. clarkanus

Binomial name
Nautilus clarkanus
Hall, 1858

Nautilus clarkanus is an extinct species of nautilus. It lived during the Lower Carboniferous.
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N. cookanum

Binomial name
Nautilus cookanum
Whitfield, 1892

Nautilus cookanum is an extinct species of nautilus. It lived during the Eocene epoch. N.
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N. macromphalus

Binomial name
Nautilus macromphalus
Sowerby, 1848

The Bellybutton Nautilus (Nautilus macromphalus
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Nautilus Pompilius (Russian: Наутилус Помпилиус), sometimes abbreviated as Nau (Russian:
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A type species fixes the name of a genus (or of a taxon in a rank lower than genus).

Strictly speaking, a type species exists only in zoological nomenclature. As set in article 42.
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N. pompilius

Binomial name
Nautilus pompilius
Linnaeus, 1758

Subspecies
  • Nautilus pompilius pompilius
    Linnaeus, 1758
  • Nautilus pompilius suluensis

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N. pompilius

Binomial name
Nautilus pompilius
Linnaeus, 1758

Subspecies
  • Nautilus pompilius pompilius
    Linnaeus, 1758
  • Nautilus pompilius suluensis

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N. praepompilius

Binomial name
Nautilus praepompilius
Shimansky, 1957

Nautilus praepompilius is an extinct species of nautilus. It lived during the late Eocene and Oligocene epochs.
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N. stenomphalus

Binomial name
Nautilus stenomphalus
Sowerby, 1848

The White-patch Nautilus (Nautilus stenomphalus) is a species of nautilus native to the Great Barrier Reef. N.
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In scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names used for a single taxon. Usage and terminology are different for zoology and botany.

Zoology

In zoological nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names that pertain to the same taxon, for example
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Nautilina
Agassiz, 1847

Family: Nautilidae
Blainville, 1825

Genera

Allonautilus
Nautilus

Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος
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A taxon (plural taxa), or taxonomic unit, is a name designating an organism or group of organisms. A taxon is assigned a rank and can be placed at a particular level in a systematic hierarchy reflecting evolutionary
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Allonautilus
Ward & Saunders, 1997

Species

Allonautilus perforatus Allonautilus scrobiculatus (type)

The genus Allonautilus
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