Species Profile
Physalia
Portuguese man-of-war
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassHydrozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Physalia floats on ocean surface.
Carnivorous and dangerous.
Important in marine ecology.
Size & Structure
01
Gas-filled float
02
Long blue tentacles
03
Bright bluish colour
Physalia — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator of fishes
Controls fish larvae population
Economic Importance
Medical relevance due to venom
Research on toxins