Animalia > Mollusca > Cephalopoda > Nautilida > Nautilidae > Nautilus > Nautilus pompilius

Nautilus pompilius (chambered nautilus)

Synonyms: Nautilus pompilius pompilius

Infraspecies

Nautilus pompilius suluensis

Attributes

Speed [2]  0.559 MPH (.25 m/s)
Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  1.102 lbs (500 g)

Prey / Diet

Nautilus pompilius (chambered nautilus)[3]

Predators

Nautilus pompilius (chambered nautilus)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Notes on animal weight, cameral fluids, swimming speed, and color polymorphism of the cephalopod Nautilus pompilius in the Fiji Islands, Peter Ward, Robert Stone, Gerd Westermann, and Arthur Martin, Paleobiology. 1977. vol. 3, pp. 377-388.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0