knobbed argonaut (Argonauta nodosa)

Query: paper nautilus

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Subject:	knobbed argonaut (Argonauta nodosa)
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Artist Arthur Bartholomew (1834 - 1909) – Artist (English)
Born in Bruton, United Kingdom. Dead in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/paper-nautilus-argonauta-nodosa/BAEOCSSozg2_CQ
Title Paper Nautilus, Argonauta nodosa
Object type Image
Date 1881
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Bartholomew_-_Paper_Nautilus,_Argonauta_nodosa_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Argonauta nodosa, also known as the knobby or knobbed argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus. 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).

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