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Allonautilus

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Image:Allonautilus scrobiculatus.png
Allonautilus scrobiculatus shell with periostracum removed
Conservation status
Data deficient (DD)

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Nautilida
Family: Nautilidae
Genus: Allonautilus
Ward & Saunders, 1997
Species

Allonautilus perforatus Allonautilus scrobiculatus (type)

The genus Allonautilus contains two species of nautiluses, which differ significantly in terms of morphology from those placed in the sister taxon Nautilus. Allonautilus is now thought to be a descendant of Nautilus and the latter paraphyletic.

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