Portuguese Man o War, Illustration
Two Portuguese man o war (Physalia arethusa) drifting half-submerged in the sea. Colour line block after a painting by Hashime Murayama, 1919. Despite its outward appearance, the Portuguese man o war is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, a colonial organism made up of specialized individual animals (of the same species) called zooids or polyps. Its venomous long tentacles deliver a painful sting, which can sometimes be fatal to humans
Picture No
12698855
Media ID
47673624
Size
2085px x 3346px
(3.9MB)
Credit
Wellcome Images/Science Source/Mary Evans
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