Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Nautiloida > Order Nautilida > Superfamily Nautiloidea

Nautilidae Blainville, 1825

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Nautilus Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: chambered nautiluses sources: Jereb, P. (2005). Family Nautilidae. pp. 51-55, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.

French: nautiles sources: Jereb, P. (2005). Family Nautilidae. pp. 51-55, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.

Japanese: オウムガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Spanish, Castillian: nautilos

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825-1827). Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie. Paris, Levrault 1-647 [1825], 649-664 + 109 pl. [1827].
basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	Jereb, P. (2005). Family Nautilidae. pp. 51-55, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.