Nautilus
Nautilus | |
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Nautilus belauensis
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
Order: | Nautilida |
Superfamily: | Nautilaceae |
Family: | Nautilidae Blainville, 1825 |
Genera | |
†Carinonautilus | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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The nautilus (from
It comprises nine living species in two genera, the
Nautilidae, both extant and extinct, are characterized by
The word nautilus is derived from the Greek word ναυτίλος nautílos "sailor", it originally referred to a type of octopus of the genus Argonauta, also known as 'paper nautilus', which were thought to use two of their arms as sails.[6][7]
Anatomy
Tentacles
The arm crown of modern nautilids (genera Nautilus and Allonautilus) is very distinct in comparison to coleoids. Unlike the ten-armed Decabrachia or the eight-armed Octopodiformes, nautilus possess between 60 and over 90 tentacles depending on the sex and individual.[8][9] These tentacles are classified into three distinct categories: ocular, digital, and labial (buccal).[10] There are two sets of ocular tentacles: one set in front of the eye (pre-ocular) and one set behind the eye (post-ocular). The digital and labial tentacles are arrayed circularly around the mouth, with the digital tentacles forming the outermost ring and the labial tentacles in between the digital tentacles and the mouth. There are 19 pairs of digital tentacles that, together with the ocular tentacles, make up the 42 appendages that are visible when observing the animal (not counting the modified tentacles that form the hood). The labial tentacles are generally not visible, being smaller than the digital tentacles, and more variable both in number and in shape.[9][10][11] Males modify three of their labial tentacles into the spadix, which delivers spermatophores into the female during copulation.[9]
The tentacle is composed of two distinct structures: the first structure, a fleshy sheath that contains the second structure: an extendable cirrus (plural: cirri).[10][12] The sheaths of the digital tentacles are fused at their base into a single mass referred to as the cephalic sheath. The digital cirri can be fully withdrawn into the sheath and are highly flexible, capable of extending just over double their fully retracted length and show a high degree of allowable bendability and torsion.[12] Despite not having suckers, the digital tentacles show strong adhesive capabilities. Adhesion is achieved through the secretion of a neutral (rather than acidic) mucopolysaccharide from secretory cells in the ridges of the digital cirri.[13][14][15] Release is triggered through contraction of the tentacle musculature rather than the secretion of a chemical solvent, similar to the adhesion/release system in Euprymna, though it is unclear whether these adhesives are homologous.[15][16] The ocular tentacles show no adhesive capability but operate as sensory organs. Both the ocular tentacles and the eight lateral digital tentacles show chemoreceptive abilities; the preocular tentacles detect distant odor and the lateral digital tentacles detect nearby odor.[17][18]
Digestive system
The radula is wide and distinctively has nine teeth.
The mouth consists of a parrot-like beak made up of two interlocking jaws capable of ripping the animal's food— mostly crustaceans— from the rocks to which they are attached.[19]: p. 105 Males can be superficially differentiated from females by examining the arrangement of tentacles around the buccal cone: males have a spadix organ (shaped like a spike or shovel) located on the left side of the cone making the cone look irregular, whereas the buccal cone of the female is bilaterally symmetrical.[19]: pp. 115–130
The crop is the largest portion of the digestive tract, and is highly extensible. From the crop, food passes to the small muscular stomach for crushing, and then goes past a digestive caecum before entering the relatively brief intestine.
Circulatory system
Like all cephalopods, the blood of the nautilus contains
Nervous system
The central component of the nautilus nervous system is the oesophageal
The nerve ring does not constitute what is typically considered a cephalopod "brain": the upper portion of the nerve ring lacks differentiated lobes, and most of the nervous tissue appears to focus on finding and consuming food (i.e., it lacks a "higher learning" center). Nautili also tend to have rather short memory spans, and the nerve ring is not protected by any form of brain case.[21]
Shell
Nautili are the sole living cephalopods whose bony body structure is externalized as a planispiral
Internally, the shell divides into
The shell coloration also keeps the animal
The nautilus shell presents one of the finest natural examples of a
Size
N. pompilius is the largest species in the genus. One form from
Physiology
Buoyancy and movement
To swim, the nautilus draws water into and out of the living chamber with its
The animal adjusts its
The nautilus has the extremely rare ability to withstand being brought to the surface from its deep natural habitat without suffering any apparent damage from the experience. Whereas fish or crustaceans brought up from such depths inevitably arrive dead, a nautilus will be unfazed despite the pressure change of as much as 80
Senses
Unlike many other cephalopods, nautiluses do not have what many consider to be good vision; their
Instead of vision, the animal is thought to use
The "ear" of the nautilus consists of structures called
Brain and intelligence
Nautiluses are much closer to the first cephalopods that appeared about 500 million years ago than the early modern cephalopods that appeared maybe 100 million years later (
In a study in 2008, a group of nautiluses (N. pompilius) were given food as a bright blue light flashed until they began to associate the light with food, extending their tentacles every time the blue light was flashed. The blue light was again flashed without the food 3 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, and 24 hours later. The nautiluses continued to respond excitedly to the blue light for up to 30 minutes after the experiment. An hour later they showed no reaction to the blue light. However, between 6 and 12 hours after the training, they again responded to the blue light, but more tentatively. The researchers concluded that nautiluses had memory capabilities similar to the "short-term" and "long-term memories" of the more advanced cephalopods, despite having different brain structures.[31][32][33] However, the long-term memory capability of nautiluses was much shorter than that of other cephalopods. The nautiluses completely forgot the earlier training 24 hours later, in contrast to octopuses, for example, which can remember conditioning for weeks afterwards. However, this may be simply the result of the conditioning procedure being suboptimal for sustaining long-term memories in nautiluses. Nevertheless, the study showed that scientists had previously underestimated the memory capabilities of nautiluses.[33]
Reproduction and lifespan
Nautiluses reproduce by laying
Nautiluses are sexually dimorphic, in that males have four tentacles modified into an organ, called the "spadix", which transfers sperm into the female's mantle during mating. At sexual maturity, the male shell becomes slightly larger than the female's.[36] Males have been found to greatly outnumber females in practically all published studies, accounting for 60 to 94% of all recorded individuals at different sites.[25]
The lifespan of nautiluses may exceed 20 years, which is exceptionally lengthy for a cephalopod, many of whom live less than three even in captivity and under ideal living conditions.[37] However, nautiluses typically do not reach sexual maturity until they are about 15 years old, limiting their reproductive lifespan to often less than five years.[25]
Nautilus male has a reproductive organ named Van der Hoeven's organ. Nautilus female has two reproductive organs whose functions are unknown, the Organ of Valenciennes and Owen's laminated organ.[38]
Ecology
Range and habitat
Nautiluses are only found in the Indo-Pacific, from 30° N to 30° S latitude and 90° E to 175° E longitude. They inhabit the deep slopes of coral reefs.
Nautiluses usually inhabit depths of several hundred metres. It has long been believed that nautiluses rise at night to feed, mate, and lay
Diet
Nautiluses are scavengers and opportunistic predators.
Evolution
The family Nautilidae has its origin in the
Fossil genera
The fossil record of Nautilidae begins with
Eutrephoceras is generally subglobular, broadly rounded laterally and ventrally, with a small to occluded umbilicus, broadly rounded hyponomic sinus, only slightly sinuous sutures, and a small siphuncle that is variable in position.
Next to appear is the
Also from the Cretaceous is Pseudocenoceras, named by Spath in 1927. Pseudocenoceras is compressed, smooth, with subrectangular whorl sections, flattened venter, and a deep umbilicus. The suture crosses the venter essentially straight and has a broad, shallow, lateral lobe. The siphuncle is small and subcentral. Pseudocenoceras is found in the Crimea and in Libya.
Obinautilus has also been placed in Nautilidae by some authorities, though it may instead be an argonautid octopus.[44][45]
Pakiwheel is a genus from the
Taxonomy
The family Nautilidae contains up to nine
- Genus Allonautilus
- A. perforatus
- A. scrobiculatus
- Genus Nautilus
- †N. altifrons
- †N. balcombensis
- N. belauensis
- †N. butonensis
- †N. campbelli
- †N. cookanus
- †N. geelongensis
- †N. javanus
- N. macromphalus
- N. pompilius (type)
- N. p. pompilius
- N. p. suluensis
- †N. praepompilius
- Nautilus samoaensis Barord et al., 2023[48] – Samoa
- N. stenomphalus
- †Nautilus taiwanus Huang, 2002– Taiwan
- Nautilus vanuatuensis Barord et al., 2023[48] – Vanuatu
- Nautilus vitiensis Barord et al., 2023[48] – Fiji
Genetic data collected in 2011 pointed to there being only three extant species: A. scrobiculatus, N. macromphalus, and N. pompilius, with N. belauensis and N. stenomphalus both subsumed under N. pompilius, possibly as subspecies,[25] though this was prior to the description of three additional species (samoaensis, vanuatuensis and vitiensis).
Dubious or uncertain taxa
The following taxa associated with the family Nautilidae are of uncertain taxonomic status:[49]
Binomial name and author citation | Current systematic status | Type locality | Type repository |
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N. alumnus Iredale, 1944 | Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:49)] | Queensland, Australia | Not designated [fide Saunders (1987:49)] |
N. ambiguus Sowerby, 1848 | Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:48)] | Not designated | Unresolved |
N. beccarii Linné, 1758 | Non-cephalopod; Foraminifera [fide Frizzell and Keen (1949:106)] | ||
N. calcar Linné, 1758 | ?Non-cephalopod; Foraminifera Lenticulina | Adriatic Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. crispus Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Mediterranean Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. crista Linné, 1758 | Non-cephalopod; Turbo [fide Dodge (1953:14)] |
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N. fascia Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Adriatic Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. granum Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Mediterranean Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. lacustris Lightfoot , 1786 |
Non-cephalopod; Helix [fide Dillwyn (1817:339)] |
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N. legumen Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Adriatic Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. micrombilicatus Joubin, 1888 | Nomen nudum | ||
N. obliquus Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Adriatic Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. pompilius marginalis Willey, 1896 | Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:50)] | New Guinea | Unresolved |
N. pompilius moretoni Willey, 1896 | Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:49)] | New Guinea | Unresolved |
N. pompilius perforatus Willey, 1896 | Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:49)] | New Guinea | Unresolved |
N. radicula Linné, 1758 | ?Non-cephalopod; F. Nodosaria | Adriatic Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. raphanistrum Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Mediterranean Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. raphanus Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Adriatic Sea | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. semi-lituus Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | Liburni, Adriatic Sea |
Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. sipunculus Linné, 1758 | Undetermined | "freto Siculo" | Unresolved; Linnean Society of London? |
N. texturatus Gould, 1857 | Nomen nudum | ||
Octopodia nautilus Schneider, 1784 | Rejected specific name [fide Opinion 233, ICZN (1954:278)] |
Conservation status and human use
Nautilus are collected or fished for sale as live animals or to carve the shells for souvenirs and collectibles, not for just the shape of their shells, but also the nacreous inner shell layer, which is used as a pearl substitute.[50][51][52] In Samoa, nautilus shells decorate the forehead band of a traditional headdress called tuiga.[53] Nautilus shells were popular items in the Renaissance and Baroque cabinet of curiosities and were often mounted by goldsmiths on a thin stem to make extravagant nautilus shell cups.
The low
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Nautilus shell carved and painted with fanciful scenes of human figures and animals (spider, dragonfly, dog, butterfly, sawfly, fly), bronze pendant mount, nineteenth century. Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan
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Nautilus shell in art 1996
In human culture
Palauans see nautili (Palauan: kedarm) as a symbol of vulnerable or fragile character from a belief that they easily die even from slight bumps on ocean rocks; hence someone who gets quickly angry after being pranked is compared to one (ng ko er a kedarm, el di metirem e metord).[60]
See also
- Cephalopod size, for maximum shell diameters
- Historia animalium by Conrad Gessner, first book with fossil illustrations
- The Nautilus, a malacological journal
- The Chambered Nautilus, a poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Nautilus Pompilius, a Russian rock band
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea published in 1870, describing the voyage of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus submarine.
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- CephBase: Nautilidae
External links
- Nautilidae discussion forum, tonmo.com
- Waikïkï Aquarium: Marine Life Profile: Chambered Nautilus, waguarium.org
- A molecular and karyological approach to the taxonomy of Nautilus, utmb.edu