Fred Bavendam / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) is actually a pelagic Octopus, females make the parchment-like shell to carry incubating eggs, South Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) hatchlings in front of parent shell, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) hatchlings, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) female with eggs on side of shell ready to hatch, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) on sand bottom, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) mouth, siphon and eye, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) on sand bottom, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) eggs hatching, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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Fred Bavendam / Paper Nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) is actually a pelagic Octopus, females make the parchment-like shell to carry incubating eggs, South Australia
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Fred Bavendam / Knobbed argonaut (Argonauta nodosa) female, showing extended mantle covering part of shell, a defensive behaviour allowing use of chromatophores in the mantle to alter color of shell, South Australia,...
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Fred Bavendam / Knobbed argonaut (Argonauta nodosa) female, portrait, South Australia, Great Australian Bight.
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Fred Bavendam / Knobbed argonaut (Argonauta nodosa) female, showing extended mantle covering part of shell, a defensive behaviour allowing use of chromatophores in the mantle to alter color of shell, Port Phillip Bay...