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The Portuguese Man o' War ( Physalia physalis ), also known as the blue bubble , blue bottle , man-of-war , or the Portuguese man of war , is a jelly-like, marine invertebrate of the famil...
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Physalia physalis is the only widely distributed species. P. utriculus, commonly known as the bluebottle, frequently occurs in Hawai`i, in the Pacific and Indian oceans. ... Then like other invertebrates and hydroids, larval Physalia reproduces itself by mitotic, asexual reproduction to yield or bud, i.e., grow,
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and gonozooids which produce gametes for reproduction. Cnidocytes (stinging cells) are located in the tentacles. Their action is based on their individual osmotic and hydrostatic pressure. ... Physalia physalis is not especially rare, and not considered to need special conservation effort at this time.
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Behavior and reproduction: Portuguese men of war gather in large groups called navies. The sail on a man of war is either right-oriented or left-oriented, much as people are right-handed or left-handed. The wind moves "left-handed" men of war to the right and right-handed men of war to the left.
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Fertilization of Physalia physalis is assumed to occur in the open water, because gametes from the gonozooids are shed into the water. This may happen as gonozooids themselves are broken off and released from the colony. ... Most reproduction takes place in the fall, producing the great abundance of young seen during the...
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Physalia physalis is found in tropical Atlantic waters and occasionally as far north as the Bay of Fundy and the Hebrides, Mediterranean Sea[2]. P. utriculus (La Martiniere), commonly known as the bluebottle, ... A third type of polyp is involved in reproduction. The painful sting of Physalia can cause fever, shock,
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Although Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758) is widely known from the Brazilian waters, specimens from this coast were never properly described. We describe Brazilian specimens of ... (2005) considered that "these siphosomal nectophores can sometimes look quite similar to the medusae specialized for sexual reproduction,
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Virginian, south side of Cape Cod, and extending northward of the subprovince limit. [details]; Distribution: mainly (sub)tropical [details]; Habitat: pelagic [details]; Reproduction: hermaphroditic [details]; ... ; Physalia physalis added on 2008-11-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq; qualitystatus: not checked...
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They sting and kill small sea creatures such as crayfish using poison-filled nematocysts then draw the prey in to the gastrozooids, another type of polyp that surrounds and digest it. Gonozooids are responsible for reproduction. ... These fishes live within the tentacles of a Physalia and are rarely seen elsewhere.
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