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Taxa Associated with the Family Nautilidae Blainville, 1825

(data as of June 2002)

Nominal Genus-Level Taxa

Allonautilus Ward and Saunders, 1997:1058

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide; taxon not yet reviewed]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Nautilus scrobiculatus Lightfoot, 1786

Nautarius Dumeril, 1806:156.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Nautilus Linne, 1758 [fide Unresolved]
New name for Nautilus Cuvier

Nautilus Linne, 1758:709.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Ward and Saunders (1997:1059)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Nautilus pompilius Linne, 1758 by subsequent designation of Montfort (1808:3).

Nautilus Schneider, 1784:120.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- "never published"; rejected generic name [fide Opinion 233, ICZN (1954:277)]† [See Octopodia nautilus Schneider, 1784]

Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)

Nautilus alumnus Iredale, 1944:295.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:49)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Not designated [fide Saunders (1987:49)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Queensland, N.S.W., Australia

Nautilus ambiguus Sowerby, 1848:464, pl 97 fig 2.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:48)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated

Nautilus beccarii Linne, 1758:710.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Non-cephalopod; Foraminifera [fide Frizzell and Keen (1949:106)]

Nautilus belauensis Saunders, 1981:1, figs 2-14.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Saunders (1987:41)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 730549
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Palau, Western Caroline Islands

Nautilus calcar Linne, 1758:709. / 1162?

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Non-cephalopod; Foraminifera Lenticulina [fide ??
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Adriatic Sea

Nautilus crispus Linne, 1758:709.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean Sea

Nautilus crista Linne, 1758:709.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Non-cephalopod; Turbo [fide Dodge (1953:14)]

Nautilus fascia Linne, 1758:711.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Adriatic Sea

Nautilus granum Linne, 1758:711.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean Sea

Nautilus lacustris Lightfoot, 1786:163.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Non-cephalopod; Helix [fide Dillwyn (1817:339)]

Nautilus legumen Linne, 1758:711.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Adriatic Sea

Nautilus macromphalus Sowerby, 1848:464, pl 98 figs 4-5.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Saunders (1987:44)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated

Nautilus pompilius marginalis Willey, 1896:229, pl 13 fig 8.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:50)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- New Guinea

Nautilus micrombilicatus Joubin, 1888:5.

Nomen nudum.

Nautilus pompilius moretoni Willey, 1896:229, pl 13 fig 9.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:49)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- New Guinea

Octopodia nautilus Schneider, 1784:120.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Rejected specific name [fide Opinion 233, ICZN (1954:278)]

Nautilus obliquus Linne, 1758:710.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Nautilus perforatus Conrad, 1849:213.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Allonautilus perforatus [fide Ward and Saunders (1997:1062)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ANSP Holotype 63484 [fide Spamer and Bogan (1992:1)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated

Nautilus pompilius perforatus Willey, 1896:229, pl 13 fig 7.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Species dubium [fide Saunders (1987:49)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- New Guinea

Nautilus pompilius Linne, 1758:709.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Ward and Saunders (1997:1059)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. – India [?fide Owen (1832)]

Nautilus radicula Linne, 1758:711.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Non-cephalopod; Foraminifera Nodosaria [fide ??]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Adriatic Sea

Nautilus raphanistrum Linne, 1758:710.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean Sea

Nautilus raphanus Linne, 1758:711.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Nautilus repertus Iredale, 1944:295, fig.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Nautilus pompilius Linne, 1758 [fide Saunders (1998:495)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- AMS Holotype C63202 [fide Rudman (1983:68)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Pelsart Island, Houtmans Abrolhos, and Rottnest, Western Australia

Nautilus scrobiculatus Lightfoot, 1786:169,182.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Allonautilus scrobiculatus [fide Ward and Saunders (1997:1059)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- “New Guinea” [fide Ward and Saunders (1997:1059)]

Nautilus semi-lituus Linne, 1758:710.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Liburni [Adriatic Sea]

Nautilus sipunculus Linne, 1758:711.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. --† “freto Siculo”

Nautilus stenomphalus Sowerby, 1848:465, pl 97 fig 3.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Saunders (1987:46)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated

Nautilus pompilius suluensis Habe and Okutani, 1988:93, figs 1-5.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide; taxon not yet reviewed]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NSMT Holotype Mo-64608
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Sulu Sea near Parawan Island, Philippine Islands

Nautilus texturatus Gould, 1857:20.

Nomen nudum.

Nautilus umbilicatus Linne, 1758:710. / 1163?

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; LS?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Liburni [Adriatic Sea]

Type Repositories

AMS- Australian Museum, P.O. Box A285, 6-8 College Street, Sydney South, New South Wales 2000, Australia. [For type catalogs see Rudman (1983); Sweeney et al. (1988) for S.S. Berry taxa]

ANSP-Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th & The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, U.S.A. [For type catalogs see Voss (1962); Spamer and Bogan (1992)]

LS- Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0LQ, England. [For type catalogs see Dodge (1953, 1959)]

NMNH-National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. (formerly USNM). [For type catalogs see Roper and Sweeney (1978); Sweeney et al. (1988)]

NSMT- National Science Museum, 3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan. [For type catalog see Kubodera and Tsuchiya (1993)]

References

Blainville, H.D.d' 1825.  Manual de Malacologie et de Conchyliologie. 664 pages, atlas of 87 plates [1827]. Paris and Strasbourg.

Conrad, T.A. 1849.  Notes on shells, with descriptions of new genera and species.  Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, (series 2)1(3):210-214.

Dillwyn, L.W. 1817.  A descriptive catalogue of recent shells arranged according to the Linnaean method, with particular attention to the synonymy. 2 volumes, 1092 pages. London.

Dodge, H. 1953.  A historical review of the mollusks of Linnaeus. Part 2. The Class Cephalopoda and the genera Conus and Cypraea of the Class Gastropoda.  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 103(1):1-134.

Dodge, H. 1959.  Evidential factors in the identification of the Linnaean molluscs.  Journal of the Linnaean Society of London, Zoology, 44(296):170-179.

Dumeril, A.M.C. 1806.  Zoologie analytique, ou methode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile a l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. 344 pages. Paris.

Frizzell, D.L. and A.M. Keen. 1949.  On the nomenclature and generic position of Nautilus beccarii Linne (Foraminifera, "Rotaliidae").  Journal of Paleontology, 23(1):106-108.

Gould, A.A. 1857.  On the true Nautilus umbilicatus of Lister.  Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 25:20-21.

Habe, T. and T. Okutani. 1988.  A new subspecies of living Nautilus (Cephalopoda: Nautiloidea) from the Sulu Sea.  Venus, 47(2):91-94, 5 figures.

Iredale, T. 1944.  Australian Pearly Nautilus.  Australian Zoologist, 10(3):294-298.

Kubodera, T., and K. Tsuchiya (eds.) 1993.  Catalogue of Specimens of the Class Cephalopoda (Phylum Mollusca) in the National Science Museum, Tokyo.  National Science Museum, Tokyo, 1993, unpaginated.

Lightfoot, J. 1786.  A Catalogue of the Portland Museum. 194 pages. London.

Linne, C. 1758.  Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 824 pages. Holmiae.

Montfort, P. Denys de 1808.  Conchyliologie systematique, et classification methodique des coquilles. Volume 1 Coquilles univalves, cloisonnees. Paris, F. Schoell, 410 pages.

Owen, R. 1832.  Memoir on the pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.): with illustrations of its external form and internal structure. London: Richard Taylor, 68 pages.

Roper, C.F.E. and M.J. Sweeney. 1978.  A catalog of the type-specimens of Recent Cephalopoda in the National Museum of Natural History.  Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 278:1-19.

Rudman, W.B. 1983.  The cephalopod collections of the Australian Museum.  Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 44:67-70.

Saunders, W.B. 1981.  A new species of Nautilus from Palau.  Veliger, 24(1):1-7, 14 figures.

Saunders, W.B. 1987.  The species of Nautilus, pages 35-64. In: W.B. Saunders and N.H. Landman (eds.) Nautilus; The biology and paleobiology of a living fossil. Plenum Press, 632 pages.

Saunders, W.B. 1998.   Family Nautilidae, pages 494-496. In: P.L. Beesley, G.J.B. Ross and A. Wells (eds.) Mollusca, The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, Part A, 563 pages.

Schneider, J.C. 1784.  Charakteristik des ganzen geschlechts und der einzelnen arten von Blackfischen, pages 105-134. Sammlung vermischter Abhandlungen zur Aufklarung der Zoologie und der Handlungsgeschichte. 348 pages. Berlin: J.F. Unger.

Sowerby, G.B. 1848.  Monograph of the genus Nautilus.  Thesaurus Conchyliorum, 2:463-465, 2 plates.

Spamer, E.E. and A.E. Bogan. 1992.  Catalog of the types of neontological Mollusca of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Part 7: Cephalopoda and Scaphopoda.  Tryonia, 24:1-13.

Sweeney, M.J., C.F.E. Roper, and F.G. Hochberg. 1988.  Catalog of the type specimens of Recent Cephalopoda described by S. Stillman Berry.  Malacologia, 29(1):7-19.

Voss, G.L. 1962e.  List of the types and species of cephalopods in the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.  Notulae Naturae, 356:1-7.  

Ward, P.D. and W.B. Saunders. 1997.  Allonautilus: a new genus of living nautiloid cephalopod and its bearing on phylogeny of the Nautilida.  Journal of Paleontology, 71(6):1054-1064, 8 figures.

Willey, A. 1896.  Zoological observations in the South Pacific. III. On some variations in the shell of Nautilus, with description of a new variety (N. pompilius, var. moretoni, nov. var.).  Quarterly Journal Microscopical Science, 39(2):227-231, 5 figures.

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