The royal natural history . nds), at the Moluccas and Java, and in the Pacific at the New Hebrides andFiji; N wnibilicatus is recorded from the Solomon Islands, and New Ireland;and K macromphalus from New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines. The animal ofNautilus is used as an article of food among the natives of the New Hebrides,New Caledonia, and Fiji, it being captured by the Fijians in traps baited withboiled crayfish. The genus Nautilus is of great antiquity, dating from an earlyepoch in the Palasozoic period, and forms the type of the familyXdiitilidce, which includes several extinct genera.
The royal natural history . nds), at the Moluccas and Java, and in the Pacific at the New Hebrides andFiji; N wnibilicatus is recorded from the Solomon Islands, and New Ireland;and K macromphalus from New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines. The animal ofNautilus is used as an article of food among the natives of the New Hebrides,New Caledonia, and Fiji, it being captured by the Fijians in traps baited withboiled crayfish. The genus Nautilus is of great antiquity, dating from an earlyepoch in the Palasozoic period, and forms the type of the familyXdiitilidce, which includes several extinct genera. There are allied extinctfamilies, collectively forming a group characterise! 1 by the simple structure of thesepta of the shell, such septa having their concavities directed towards its these, the Orthoceratidce, as typified by the Palaeozoic genus Orthoceras,may be characterised as unrolled nautili, the shell—which sometimes reaches animmense leno-th—formino; a lone cone. Allied Families. 34°
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