Palau nautilus
Amazing fact
The Palau nautilus finds and comes to bait placed on the seabed.
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The Palau nautilus finds and comes to bait placed on the seabed.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Palau nautilus
- Scientific name
- Nautilus belauensis
- Japanese name
- パラオオウムガイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Nautilida
- Family
- Nautilidae
- Genus
- Nautilus
How the Palau nautilus lives
It is active during both the day and the night. It eats dead animals and also catches prey when the opportunity arises. It moves actively near the seabed.
The Paleontological Society / Cambridge University PressBasic data
- Size
- Shell size: 20 cm or more
- Range
- Waters around Palau
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- パラオオウムガイ
- 简体中文
- 帕劳鹦鹉螺
- 繁體中文
- 帕勞鸚鵡螺
- 한국어
- 팔라우앵무조개
- Español
- Nautilo de Palaos
- Português (Brasil)
- Náutilo-de-Palau
- Italiano
- Nautilo di Palau
- العربية
- نوتيلوس بالاو
- Tiếng Việt
- Ốc anh vũ Palau
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — パラオオウムガイChecked: 2026-11-04
- The Paleontological Society / Cambridge University Press — The role and status of Nautilus in its natural habitat: evidence from deep-water remote camera photosequencesChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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