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Nautilus pompilius (detail)🐚

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SpeciesNautilidaNautilidae
Molluscs

🐚Chambered nautilus

Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus, 1758

El nautilo perlado (Nautilus pompilius) es una especie de molusco cefalópodo de la familia Nautilidae; la más conocida de nautilo. Su concha, al ser seccionada sagitalmente, revela una línea de nácar, y se dispone formando un espiral equiangular casi perfecto. Su distribución está restringida al área Indo-Pacífica. Principalmente viven en zonas menos profundas que los otros cefalópodos, alimentándose de peces, crustáceos y carroña, comida que detecta principalmente a través del olfato. Pueden sobrevivir hasta 700 metros de profundidad pero suelen encontrarse más cerca de la superficie durante la noche, sobre todo para alimentarse. También se pueden encontrar rondando los arrecifes de coral del sur del Pacífico. Se trata de una especie nocturna, que llega a vivir hasta 20 años, tiempo inusualmente largo para un cefalópodo.

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Nautilus pompilius
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.68 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Chambered nautilus

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Body mass
1.68 kgmaximum recorded
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Shell diameter
0.22 mmaximum recorded, shell diameter
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Volume l
1.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumMollusca
  3. ›classCephalopoda
  4. ›orderNautilida
  5. ›familyNautilidae
  6. ›genusNautilus
  7. ›speciesNautilus pompilius
Full lineage
  1. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  2. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  3. familyNautilidae
  4. genusNautilus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  3. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  4. subclassNautiloidea
  5. orderNautilida
  6. familyNautilidae
  7. genusNautilus
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鸚鵡螺 (zh), Наутилус помпилиус (моллюск) (ru), Nautilus pompilius (fr), Ốc anh vũ (vi), Nautilus pompilius (ca), 황제앵무조개 (ko) … and 15 more languages
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