Kapal

For the 2025 film, see Kapal (film).

For the village in Kazakhstan, see Qapal.

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

Kapal Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
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".