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Argonauta nodosus [previously known as Argonauta nodosa [3] [4] [5]], also known as the knobby or knobbed argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus.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).
A female argonaut is also described in Marianne Moore's poem "The Paper Nautilus". "Argonauta" is the name of a chapter in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea. Paper nautiluses were caught in The Swiss Family Robinson novel. [24] Argonauts gave their name to an Arabidopsis thaliana mutation and by extension to Argonaute proteins.
Japanese erotic art, shunga, includes ukiyo-e woodblock prints such as Katsushika Hokusai's 1814 print Tako to ama (The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife), in which an ama diver is sexually intertwined with a large and a small octopus. [179] [180] The print is a forerunner of tentacle erotica. [181]
It has the common name algae octopus due to its typical resting camouflage, which resembles a gastropod shell overgrown with algae. It is small in size with a mantle around the size of a small orange ( c. 7 cm or 3 inches) and arms 25 cm (10 inches) in length, and is adept at mimicking its surroundings.
O. californiana has a distribution in the northern and northeastern Pacific Ocean, ranging in the west from off central Honshū and the Sea of Okhotsk, its northernmost range is the Bering Sea, and its eastern range is along the western coast of North America as far south as Eureka Bar, California (the type locality, at 350 m depth). [9]
In "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft describes a statue of Cthulhu as: "A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."
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