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Argonauta argo (greater argonaut)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Argonauta argo, also known as the greater argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus belonging to the genus Argonauta. The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell, hence the name paper nautilus. The Chinese name for this species translates as "white sea-horse's nest". A. argo was the first argonaut species to be described and is consequently the type species of the genus. A. argo is the largest species in the genus and also produces the largest eggcase. Live animals have a characteristic blue sheen on the first arm pair and around the eyes. The eggcase is characterised by two rows of small, sharp tubercles running along a narrow keel, smooth ribs across the walls of the shell, and a
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal

Prey / Diet

Phyllorhiza pacifica (Jellyfish)[2]

Predators

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 3Forage fauna in the diet of three large pelagic fishes (lancetfish, swordfish and yellowfin tuna) in the western equatorial Indian Ocean, Michel Potier, Francis Marsac, Yves Cherel, Vincent Lucas, Richard Sabatié, Olivier Maury and Frédéric Ménard, Fisheries Research 83 (2007) 60–72
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5DIET AND FEEDING OF DOLPHIN (CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS) IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WATERS, Enric Massutí, Salud Deudero, Pilar Sánchez and Beatriz Morales-Nin, BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 63(2): 329–341, 1998
♦ 6Diet of Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) in the western Mediterranean Sea, CARMEN BLANCO, M ÁNGELES RADUÁN and JUAN ANTONIO RAGA, SCIENTIA MARINA 70 (3) September 2006, 407-411, Barcelona (Spain)
♦ 7Yves Cherel, Richard Sabatié, Michel Potier, Francis Marsac, Frédéric Ménard. 2007. New information from fish diets on the importance of glassy flying squid (Hyaloteuthis pelagica) (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae) in the epipelagic community of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Fish. Bull. 105: 147–152.
♦ 8Comparison of prey of the black Procellaria petrels of New Zealand, M. J. Imbera, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research Volume 10, Issue 1, 1976, p. 119-130
♦ 9DIET OF THE ATLANTIC PETREL PTERODROMA INCERTA DURING BREEDING AT SOUTH ATLANTIC GOUGH ISLAND, N.T.W. KLAGES & J. COOPER, Marine Ornithology 25: 13–16 (1997)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0