Argonauta hians: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the argonauta hians lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Argonauta hians
Group	Octopuses, squid & cuttlefish
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Asia
Class	Cephalopod
Order	Octopoda
Family	Argonautidae

Where does the argonauta hians live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the argonauta hians in 1 country or territory across Asia. Wikidata gives its range as: Brazil.

Philippines

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the argonauta hians endangered?

The argonauta hians’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the argonauta hians?

The argonauta hians (Argonauta hians) is a cephalopod in the order Octopoda and the family Argonautidae, genus Argonauta. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the argonauta hians

Argonauta hians, also known as the winged argonaut, muddy argonaut or brown paper nautilus, is a species of pelagic octopus. The common name comes from the grey to brown coloured shell. The Chinese name for this species translates as "grey sea-horse's nest". The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell (hence the name paper nautilus). The eggcase is characterised by a wide keel that gives it a square appearance, few rounded tubercles along the keel, and less than 40 smooth ribs across the sides of the shell. The shell is usually approximately 80 mm in length, although it can exceed 120 mm in exceptional specimens; the world record size is 121.5 mm.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Argonauta hians (revision 1363479135), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q2578622 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).