noun. A genus of cephalopods, typical of the family Argonautidœ.

noun. A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

noun. type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

"I refer to his claim that "les premiers conquérants de la mer furent induits en vénération du poulpe nageur (octopus) parce qu'ils crurent que quelque-uns de ces céphalopodes, les poulpes sacrés (argonauta) avaient, comme eux et avant eux, inventé la navigation" (_op.cit. _, p. 15)."

mollusk genus