the chambered nautilus literary terms
The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius also called pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus.The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral, although it is not a golden spiral.he eyes of the chambered nautilus are more primitive than those of some other cephalopods; the eye has no lens and thus is comparable to a pinhole camera.