The Pearl Nautilus is a chambered floating seashell. The pearl nautilus outgrows its chamber and builds another a little larger and directly on top of its existing chamber and moves in to new chamber when built. The old chamber is then sealed off adding to its buoyancy. A series of chambers are built in a spiral fashion using its existing structure; it lives in the last and largest chamber of the shell. It can sink or float at will.
The Nautilus Pompilus belongs to the Nautildae family and is common in the western pacific.
The seashells for sale on this page range from 5" to 6" long.
