Cephalopod Families is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers families of cephalopods, the mollusks with arms or tentacles around the mouth, such as the nautiluses of the family Nautilidae, which keep an outer coiled shell, and the vampire squid and its extinct relatives of the family Vampyroteuthidae. It excludes the cephalopod orders, which are listed on their own, and the families of other mollusks and of other invertebrates.
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Wikipedia: Nautilus
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A nautilus (from Latin nautilus 'sails like a vessel'; from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos) 'seaman, sailor') is any of the various species within the cephalopod family Nautilidae.
Wikipedia: Vampyroteuthidae
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Vampyroteuthidae is a family of vampyromorph cephalopods containing the extant vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and the extinct genera Necroteuthis, Provampyroteuthis and Vampyronassa.
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