Argonauta argo Greater argonaut

Argonauta argo is commonly referred to as Greater argonaut. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

7427 

AphiaID:

138803 

Scientific:

Argonauta argo 

German:

Großes Papierboot 

English:

Greater Argonaut 

Category:

Blekkspruter  

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Octopoda (Order) > Argonautidae (Family) > Argonauta (Genus) > argo (Species) 

Initial determination:

Linnaeus, 1758 

Occurrence:

Sudan, Guadeloupe, Benin, El Salvador, Ghana, Zirkumsubtropisch, Russland, Kuwait, Tunesien, Eritrea, Gambia, Suriname, Djibouti, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, West Sahara, Hong Kong, Barbados, Straße von Gibraltar, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the Black Sea, (the) Maldives, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central Atlantic, China, Christmas Islands, Circumtropic, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, East-Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Northeast Pacific Ocean, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Red Sea, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South America, South-Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tasmania (Australia), Thailand, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

18 - 200 Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water, Water Column 

Size:

0.39" - 28.35" (1,5cm - 72,6cm) 

Temperature:

13,6 °F - 27,8 °F (13,6°C - 27,8°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Cnidaria, Hydrozoa polyps, Jellyfish 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Near threatened (NT) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Argonauta argo
  Großes Papierboot
• 
  Argonauta hians
  Braunes Papierboot, Geflügeltes Papierboot
• 
  Argonauta nodosus
  Papierboot
• Argonauta nouryi

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Argonauta sp.
  Papierboot

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-08-05 22:30:17 

Last edit:

2023-12-09 15:49:19 

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