Portuguese Man O War Close Up
by Bob Slitzan
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Portuguese Man O War Close Up
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Bob Slitzan
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Photograph - Photography
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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. Its venomous tentacles can deliver a painful (and sometimes fatal) sting. -Wikipedia
Not only is it not a jellyfish, it's not even an "it," but a "they." The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together. The man-of-war comprises four separate polyps. -National Geographic
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January 2nd, 2017
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