Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 novel The Swiss Family Robinson. [24] Argonauts gave their name to an Arabidopsis thaliana mutation and by extension to Argonaute proteins.
These were winged female creatures, and when a table was laid for Phineus, they flew down from the sky and snatched up most of the victuals from his lips, and what little they left stank so that nobody could touch it. Fragments of an ivory relief (570 BC) depicting the Harpies and a male figure, likely an Argonaut (Archaeological Museum of Delphi)
In argonauts, the male transfers the spermatophores to the female by putting its hectocotylus into a cavity in the mantle of the female, called the pallial cavity. This is the only contact the male and female have with each other during copulation, and it can be at a distance. During copulation, the hectocotylus breaks off from the male.
The common name comes from the grey to brown coloured shell. The Chinese name for this species translates as "grey sea-horse's nest". [2] 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).
Caeneus' son was the Argonaut Coronus, who was killed by Heracles while leading a war against the Dorians and their king Aegimius. [4] According to the mythographer Hyginus, Caeneus' mother was Hippea —the daughter of a Thessalian from Larissa named Antippus—and his brothers were Ischys and the Argonaut Polyphemus .
Argonauta argo, also known as the greater argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus belonging to the genus Argonauta. The Chinese name for this species translates as "white sea-horse's nest". [2] A. argo was the first argonaut species to be described and is consequently the type species of the genus.
Argonauta pacifica, also known as the Pacific 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 ).
The family is characterised by brittle white shells constructed by the females, but which the dwarf male argonauts lack. These shells are primarily egg-cases, and are not attached to the body of the female. Paper nautiluses are often found washed up on beaches and are valued for their delicate beauty.