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Velella mutica = Sea raft jellyfish (Velella velella)
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Velella mutica = Sea raft jellyfish (Velella velella)


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)
Synonyms
(Genus)

    Armenista Haeckel, 1888
    Rataria Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velaria Haeckel, 1888

(Species)

    Armenista sigmoides Haeckel, 1888
    Holothuria spirans Forsskål, 1775
    Medusa pocillum Montagu, 1815
    Medusa velella Linnaeus, 1758
    Rataria cordata Eschscholtz, 1829
    Rataria mitrata Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velella antarctica Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velella aurora Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velella australis de Haan, 1827
    Velella caurina Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velella cyanea Lesson, 1826
    Velella emarginata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
    Velella indica Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821
    Velella limbosa Lamarck, 1816
    Velella meridionalis Fewkes, 1889
    Velella mutica Lamarck, 1801
    Velella oblonga Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821
    Velella oxyothone Brandt, 1835
    Velella pacifica de Haan, 1827
    Velella patellaris Brandt, 1835
    Velella pyramidalis Cranch, 1818
    Velella radackiana de Haan, 1827
    Velella sandwichiana de Haan, 1827
    Velella scaphidia Peron & Lesueur, 1807
    Velella septentrionalis Eschscholtz, 1829
    Velella sinistra Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821
    Velella tentaculata Lamarck, 1801
    Velella tropica Eschscholtz, 1829

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