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Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a marine organism consisting of a colony of hydroids [ 2] found in the warmer, tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific, [ 3] Atlantic, and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Arabian Sea. [ 4] It was first identified by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, under the basionym Medusa ...
Porpita is genus of hydrozoans in the family Porpitidae. It has two species recognized and is the type genus of its family. [1] Porpita is also in the phylum Cnidarian. Similar to the well-known Portuguese Man-of-War, species in this genus consist mainly of colonies of hydrozoans, linked to a biological float, keeping them near the surface.
Velella. Velella is a monospecific genus of hydrozoa in the Porpitidae family. Its only known species is Velella velella, [ 2] a cosmopolitan (widely distributed) free-floating hydrozoan that lives on the surface of the open ocean. It is commonly known by the names sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail, or simply Velella.
Blue Button Jellyfish were spotted on Cape Canaveral beaches this week, catching vacationers and locals off guard. On Friday, FOX 35 found some kids at the beach who were very observant and helped ...
The small jellyfish-like critters have a deep blue hue and a sail that allows them to glide on the ocean’s surface. When they beach themselves, they lose their pigment and dry out. But don't ...
Jelly blubber. Catostylus mosaicus is also known as the Jelly blubber or Blue blubber jellyfish. [1] The jelly blubber is distinguishable by its color, which ranges from light blue to a dark blue or purple, and its large (250-300mm [2] ), rounded bell which pulses in a staccato rhythm. [1] It occurs along the coastline of Eastern Australia in ...
Jellyfish. Spotted jellies swimming in a Tokyo aquarium. Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa -phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are ...
The Portuguese man o' war ( Physalia physalis ), also known as the man-of-war[ 6] or bluebottle, [ 7] is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It is considered to be the same species as the Pacific man o' war or bluebottle, which is found mainly in the Pacific Ocean. [ 8] The Portuguese man o' war is the only ...