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Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a
marine organism consisting of a
colony of
hydroids found in the warmer,
tropical and sub-tropical
waters of...
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Porpita is
genus of
hydrozoans in the
family Porpitidae. It has two
species recognized and is the type
genus of its family.
Porpita is also in the phylum...
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synonym to 'porpitid' in
discussions of the two
genera contained therein,
Porpita and Velella. They all live at the
surface of the open ocean, and are colonies...
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Porpita prunella is a
marine species of
hydrozoan organisms within the
family Porpitidae. It
consists of
colonies of zooids. Very
little is
known about...
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Chondrophora is no
longer used by
hydrozoan systematists.[citation needed]
Porpita porpita Glaucus atlanticus Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des
animaux sans...
- physalis), the by-the-wind-sailor (Velella velella), the blue
button (
Porpita porpita), and the
violet snail,
Janthina janthina. Occasionally, individuals...
- man o' war (a.k.a. bluebottle, or
Physalia utriculus), blue
buttons (
Porpita porpita), and the by-the-wind
sailor (Velella velella). The
nudibranch has...
- pace with the
rising water and form an
atoll Portuguese man o' war
Porpita porpita Lion's mane jellyfish,
largest known jellyfish The bioluminescence...
- have
pelagic larval stages.
Velella and
Porpita release jellyfish (medusae), and
while little is
known about Porpita medusae,
Velella medusae could possibly...
- and
Thysanostoma loriferum), siphonop****s (Physalia
physalis and
Porpita porpita),
anemones (Heteractis magnifica),
coral (Acropora,
Pocillopora damicornis...
