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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.
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 in the phylum Cnidaria.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 on the southern coast of Sicily. The tiny individual animals are specialized to perform specific tasks; some form the central gas-filled disc (which is a golden brown colour and hardened by chitinous material) essential to keeping the colony afloat; others form radiating tentacles for tasks such as catching prey, reproduction, and digestion.
Blue gelatinous creatures known as by-the-wind sailors often wash up on California beaches by the thousands in the springtime when the ocean warms. Blue jellyfish-like critters arrive in Bay Area ...
Now, the mystery is solved: it is a placental jellyfish -- after many. For two years a mysterious sea creature has been captured on video as it swims 5,000 feet below the surface, but scientists ...
The deep blue, by-the-wind sailors that are recognized by many beach-goers are the polyp phase of the life cycle. Each "individual" with its sail is really a hydroid colony, with many polyps that feed on ocean plankton. These are connected by a canal system that enables the colony to share whatever food is ingested by individual polyps.
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Blue jellyfish, expanding Blue jellyfish, underside Sideview Cyanea lamarckii , also known as the blue jellyfish or bluefire jellyfish , is a species of jellyfish in the family Cyaneidae . Description