Velella mutica = Sea raft jellyfish (Velella velella)

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Subject:	Velella mutica = Sea raft jellyfish (Velella velella)
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Velella mutica
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Velella mutica
New Latin name Velella velella
Common name sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail
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Velella is a monospecific genus of hydrozoa in the Porpitidae family. Its only known species is Velella velella, a cosmopolitan 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. This small cnidarian is part of a specialised ocean surface community that includes the better-known cnidarian siphonophore, the Portuguese man o' war. Specialized predatory gastropod molluscs prey on these cnidarians. Velella velella lives in warm and temperate waters in all the world's oceans.

Order: Anthoathecata
Family: Porpitidae
Genus: Velella Lamarck, 1801
Species: Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)
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