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VELELLA
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| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Fernando Barao (fbarao) (141) |
| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-08-10 |
| Categories: Ocean |
| Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC W55 |
| Exposure: f/7.1, 1/320 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-10-08 8:06 |
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hi,
srprised animal!!
very good shot with great sharpness
TFS
vero
Hy Fernando
I've heard about "caravela portuguesa"... quite poisonous no??Ther are not many animals like this on TN, and for this, TFS
Oana
Olá, Fernando
Linda foto, muito boa as cores e a nitidez. Parabéns.
No entanto, acredito que esta foto seja, na realidade, a foto de uma velella (Velella velella), que é semelhante à caravela-portuguesa (Physalia physalis - também conhecida como garrafa azul, e que aparece em todas as regiões tropicais do oceano). Enquanto que o flutuador da velella é simétrico radialmente com a vela em ângulo o da caravela-portuguesa é simétrico bilateralmente com os tentáculos no final. Além disso, a caravela tem um sifão, e a velella não.
Um abraço
Elza Maria
P.S. Veja a diferença entre as duas:
1)VELELLA
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Medusozoa
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Anthomedusae
Family: Porpitidae
Genus: Velella
Species: V. velella
Binomial name: Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)
2)CARAVELA-PORTUGUESA
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum : Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophora
Family: Physaliidae
Genus: Physalia
Species: P. physalis
Binomial name: Physalia physalis Lineu, 1758
olà Fernando!
a good capture of Physalia Physalis on the beach ..excellent details and colors
saludos sERGIO
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Seeing this interesting animal provoked my curiosity. I did a bit of googling around and found the following...
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 commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is not a single animal but a siphonophore — a colony of four kinds of highly modified individuals, specialized polyps and medusoids, which are dependent on one another for survival. These pelagic colonial hydroids or hydrozoans are infamous for their very painful, powerful sting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Man_o%27_War