🦋 Family

Porpitidae

2 species · Animals

Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Anthoathecata › Porpitidae

Porpita porpita, the blue button, is a passive ocean surface drifter that actively hunts small crustacean prey.

Velella velella, the by-the-wind sailor, is a surface-dwelling oceanic hydrozoan colony famous for mass beach strandings.

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Milleporidae 5 species Hydractiniidae 2 species Hydridae 2 species Corynidae 1 species Oceaniidae 1 species Pennariidae 1 species Solanderiidae 1 species Stylasteridae 1 species

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