Greater Argonaut
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| Argonauta argo Linnaeus, 1758 |
The Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo), or Paper Nautilus, is a species of the genus Argonauta, which is a kind of octopus and not a nautilus as its name implies.
The female of the species creates a paper-thin eggsack that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell.