Re: REQ: Portuguese Man-o-war

Query: Martin kramer

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Subject:	Re: REQ: Portuguese Man-o-war
Poster:	Martin Kramer (mkramer@wxs.nl)

MKramer-PortugueseMan-of-war1-Jellyfish-FloatingSeaSurface.jpg

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Re: REQ: Portuguese Man-o-war

Michael Rohdin wrote:

>I'm looking for photos of these or other tentacly jellyfish things. I'd
>appreciate any anyone might have.

This is one I saw and photographed at the Azores some years ago

Martin Kramer

mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/

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.

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Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebubble, bluebottle or the man-of-war, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore—a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids.

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