Nautilus genera are the genera of the family Nautilidae in the order Nautilida, class Cephalopoda. Animal Diversity Web lists two, Allonautilus and Nautilus, and notes that the nautiloids have more than 90 tentacles, where squid and cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles. GBIF lists its genera under the family, led by Eutrephoceras with about 85 descendant taxa, Cenoceras with about 81, Nautilus with about 69, Metacoceras with about 27 and Protocycloceras with about 20.
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Animal Diversity Web: Nautilidae
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Genus Allonautilus Genus Nautilus
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Nautilidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Nautilidae
"canonicalName":"Nautilus","vernacularName":"chambered nautiluses","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata [10th Revised Edition], Vol. 1: 824 Pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae., Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata, [iii], 824 p. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm], 1758. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.542","numDescendants":69
Children of Nautilidae: Allonautilus
"canonicalName":"Allonautilus","authorship":"Ward & Saunders, 1997","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ward, P. D., & Saunders, B. (1997). Allonautilus: a new genus of living nautiloid cephalopod and its bearing on phylogeny of the Nautilida. Journal of Paleontology, 71(6), 1054-1064. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=231032","numDescendants":3
Children of Nautilidae: Eutrephoceras
"canonicalName":"Eutrephoceras","authorship":"Hyatt, 1894","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 32","numDescendants":85
Children of Nautilidae: Cenoceras
"canonicalName":"Cenoceras","authorship":"Hyatt, 1884","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 22","numDescendants":81
Children of Nautilidae: Metacoceras
"canonicalName":"Metacoceras","authorship":"Hyatt, 1884","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 22","numDescendants":27
Children of Nautilidae: Protocycloceras
"canonicalName":"Protocycloceras","authorship":"Hyatt, 1900","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"in Eastman-Zittel, Text-Book Palaeont, 1","numDescendants":20
View the Source Animal Diversity Web: Cephalopoda
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Members of the order Nautiloidea have more than 90 tentacles
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: Allonautilus
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The genus Allonautilus contains two species of nautiluses, which have a significantly different morphology from those placed in the sister taxon Nautilus.
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