Nautilus

genus of molluscs

Species

chambered nautiluses

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassCephalopoda
OrderNautilida
FamilyNautilidae

Habitatmarine

Observations recorded14,825

Nautilus (del griego ναυτίλος, "marinero") es un género de moluscos cefalópodos del que sobreviven hoy en día tres especies. Reciben el nombre común de nautilos, nombre que comparten con las especies del género Allonautilus, de las que difieren de manera significativa. Se considera al Nautilus un fósil viviente.

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Research

509 papers

Nautilus pompilius.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2022
A Nautilus kidney.Clinical and experimental nephrology · 2020
MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study.Nature medicine · 2021
Drosophila myogenesis and insights into the role of nautilus.Current topics in developmental biology · 1998
An asymmetric nautilus-like HflK/C assembly controls FtsH proteolysis of membrane proteins.The EMBO journal · 2025

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Nautilus
taxon name: Nautilus
taxon common name: 鸚鵡螺

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Nautilus is a marine cephalopod genus in the mollusk family Nautilidae. Species in this genus differ significantly, morphologically, from the two nautilus species in the adjacent sister-taxon Allonautilus. The oldest fossils of the genus are known from the Late Eocene Hoko River Formation, in Washington State and from Late-Eocene to Early Oligocene sediments in Kazakhstan. The oldest fossils of the modern species Nautilus pompilius are from Early Pleistocene sediments off the coast of Luzon in the Philippines.

The commonly used term 'nautilus' usually refers to any of the surviving members of Nautilidae, and more specifically to the Nautilus pompilius species. The entire family of Nautilidae, including all species in the genera Nautilus and Allonautilus, is listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).