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Argonauta (1330 words) |
 | argo with a shell length of 88 mm was estimated to be carrying 48,800 embryos (Okutani and Kawaguchi, 1983). |
| The latter authors describe Argonauta astride the aboral (=exumbrellar) surface of a swimming jellyfish that it held with its lateral and ventral arms. |
| Predation on jellyfish by the cephalopod Argonauta argo. |
| Paper Nautilus (1361 words) |
| Argonauta shells are washed ashore globally, but the collection of an animal still resident in its shell is a very rare event. |
| In Greek, Argonaut means “who travels on the Argo.” The sail-like flap of the Paper Nautilus was mistaken by its discoverers as an aid to locomotion, and thus its similarity to the mythical Argo. |
| As Argonauta argo and Argonauta hians are present in most tropical and subtropical waters around the world these are probably present in the region as well. |
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