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DHyslop said:One of our biologists should jump in here and tell us more, because I really don't know much about their scarcity. My understanding is they are more like shelled octopus rather than a true Nautilus. Do a google search and you'll see some good pictures.
Dan
This is another name for an Argonaut. I believe that they are believed to be a variation on octopus, rather than a close relative of real nautilus; the shell is formed in a different way, from organs on one of the arm pairs, unlike a nautilus, and otherwise the morphology is almost identical to an octopus (8 arms, no tentacles, suckers, etc.) I've never heard of one being kept in an aquarium or sold as a pet, though.