Nautilidae


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Noun1.Nautilidae - spiral-shelled cephalopods
family Nautilidae
mollusk family - a family of mollusks
Cephalopoda, class Cephalopoda - octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus
genus Nautilus - type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae
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'Cephalopods of the world An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date Volume 1 Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae) FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes 4(1), FAO Rome.
Inter-cohort growth patterns of pharaoh cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis (sepioidea: sepiidae) in Eastern Arabian Sea
It is recorded in the upper Cenomanian Neolobites vibrayeanus subzone of the IT and the Calycoceras (Eucalycoceras) guerangeri zone of the WPCP, and includes the co-occurrence of Angulithes with Neolobites, in the Nautilidae and Engonoceratidae in both basins, and of Euomphaloceras with Calycoceras, in the Acanthoceratidae in the former, and of Calycoceras, in the same family, in the latter.
Cephalopod assemblages and depositional sequences from the upper Cenomanian and lower Turonian of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)/ Asociaciones de cefalopodos y secuencias deposicionales en el Cenomaniense superior y Turoniense inferior de la Peninsula Iberica (Espana y Portugal)
All cephalopods save the Nautilidae possess the ability to rapidly modify their body coloration (1).
Acetylcholine mediates excitatory input to chromatophore motoneurons in the squid, Loligo pealeii

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