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The first living Nautilus to be displayed in a public aquarium was N. macromphalus, exhibited at the Nouméa Aquarium in New Caledonia in 1958 (Cátala, 1964). In 1961, the Monaco Aquarium obtained one living N. macromphalus, which survived 2 months in captivity (Cousteau and Diolé, 1973). Apparently no other successful attempts to keep Nautilus in aquaria were made until 1976, when the Yomiuri-Land Aquarium in Tokyo obtained N. macromphalus from the Nouméa Aquarium and kept them alive for 8 months (JECOLN, 1980b) (see also Chapter 36). At the same time, specimens of N. pompilius were obtained from Fiji by the Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii, where they were maintained for 8 months (Carlson, 1977, 1979).
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Carlson, B.A. (2010). Collection and Aquarium Maintenance of Nautilus. In: Saunders, W.B., Landman, N.H. (eds) Nautilus. Topics in Geobiology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3299-7_35
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