Kapal

Kapal is a monotypic genus of shelled octopods comprising the species Kapal batavus.

Kapal
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Argonautidae
Genus: Kapal
Martin, 1930
Species:
K. batavus
Binomial name
Kapal batavus
Martin, 1930

Kapal batavus was described in 1930 based on fossil material from Lower Palembang shales of Sumatra. The eggcase of this species is considerably more evolute than that of Argonauta, possessing an open umbilical region, and seems to lack the nodes present in members of that genus.[1]

Kapal is Indonesian for "ship".

References

Kapal LCT

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