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Jennyncmg
wrote:
1 Jan 2025
It looks like the egg jelly of a moon snail, one of the Polinices sp. You can see spots inside which are likely to be the eggs. It is unusual for the jelly to be coloured but maybe that is just the background showing through?
Unidentified Marine Invertebrate
smarsh24
wrote:
17 Dec 2024
Yes, I think you're right. This is what I found...There are two species in the genus: Physalia physalis (known as Portuguese man-of-war) in the Atlantic, and Physalia utriculus (known as bluebottle) in the Indo-Pacific. (Source: https://dan.org/health-medicine/health-resources/diseases-conditions/portuguese-man-of-war-bluebottle/#:~:text=There%20are%20two%20species%20in,)%20in%20the%20Indo%2DPacific).
Physalia utriculus
Jennyncmg
wrote:
15 Dec 2024
There seems to be some confusion as to which Physalia species comes to our coast. Could it be P utriculis?
Physalia utriculus
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
9 Apr 2024
Yep, top shelf, thanks for contributing this sighting to NatureMapr. It's very exciting to get sea creature sightings submitted.
Cleidopus gloriamaris
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