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Nautilus belauensis
he nautilus is similar in general form to other cephalopods, with a prominent head and tentacles. Nautiluses typically have more tentacles than other cephalopods, up to ninety. These tentacles are arranged into two circles and, unlike the tentacles of other cephalopods, they have no suckers, are undifferentiated and retractable. The radula is wide and distinctively has nine teeth. There are two pairs of gills. These are the only remnants of the ancestral metamerism to be visible in extant cephalopods.
wildlife world zoo and aquarium
Nice shot. This is actually classified in Phylum Mollusca and then in Class Cephalopoda. There is a new Mollusca mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1214...
Spotted on Jul 19, 2012
Submitted on Jul 22, 2012
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