Chambered nautilus

The chambered nautilus (オウムガイ, Ōmugai) is a type of sea creature introduced in.

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Upon donating a chambered nautilus to the museum, it can be found in the small tank on the left hand side in the first room of the sea exhibit. The exhibit has this to say about the chambered nautilus:

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When donating to the museum, Blathers will say the following:

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During a Fishing Tourney, when given a chambered nautilus, Chip will not score the sea creature but will say the following:

Real-world information
The chambered nautilus is the best-known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral, although it is not a golden spiral. The shell exhibits countershading, being light on the bottom and dark on top. This is to help avoid predators, because when seen from above, it blends in with the darkness of the sea, and when seen from below, it blends in with the light coming from above.

Nautilidae as a family, both extant and extinct, are characterized by involute or more or less convolute shells that are generally smooth, with compressed or depressed whorl sections, straight to sinuous sutures, and a tubular, generally central siphuncle. Having survived relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, nautiluses represent the only living members of the subclass nautiloidea.

Although once thought to be a living fossil, the chambered nautilus is now considered taxonomically very different from ancient ammonites, and the recent fossil record surrounding the species shows more genetic diversity among nautiluses now than has been found since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Indeed, the taxon of the chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius is actually a grouping of tens of different species of nautilus under one name.

Names in other languages
Nautilo