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Atlantic Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
Subject: Atlantic Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
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Physalia physalis cumbuco brasilia - Atlantic Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis).jpg
Resolution: 1600x1071 File Size: 670474 Bytes Date: 2008:09:23 16:29:13 Camera: DSLR-A100 (SONY ) F number: f/5.6 Exposure: 1/1600 sec Focal Length: 700/10 Upload Date: 2017:06:07 21:31:53

Atlantic Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)


English: Portuguese Man o' War (Physalia physalia) at the Beach of Cumbuco/Brasil
Deutsch: Portugiesische Galeere (Physalia physalia) am Strand von Cumbuco/Brasilien
Date 23 September 2008
Author Pixelschubser https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pixelschubser
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physalia_physalis_cumbuco_brasilia.jpg

The Atlantic Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), also known as the man-of-war, blue bottle, or floating terror, is a marine hydrozoan of the family Physaliidae found in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its venomous tentacles can deliver a painful (and sometimes fatal) sting. Despite its outward appearance, the Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which, unlike jellyfish, is not actually a single multicellular organism, but a colonial organism made up of specialized individual animals called zooids or polyps. The Indo-Pacific Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia utriculus), or blue bottle, is a related species with very similar appearance found throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Order: Siphonophora
Family: Physaliidae
Genus: Physalia
Species: Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Scientific Name: Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Names: Portuguese Man o' War, Bluebottle, Portuguese man-of-war, Atlantic Portuguese man o' war

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