Learn how the air-filled pneumatophore helps the Portuguese Man o’ War float and why it often ends up stranded on beaches.

Bracken noted that the “wild thing” about velella is that what is perceived as a single animal is actually a “large colony [of hydrozoa] with a whole bunch of individuals, each specialized to a ...

We found records of 26 exotic aquatic species in the PMLS. Actinopterygii was the most representative (11 species), followed by Hydrozoa (three), Malacostraca (two) and Bivalvia (two), and other eight ...

During the studied period (February to June 2019), the salinity measured in the sampled locations ranged from 27 to 28 ppm, and water transparency from 35 to 205 cm (Table II). A total of twelve ...

Within Medusozoa, only Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa were represented ... 28S eDNA primer set designed for anthozoans can also capture a diverse range of medusozoan cnidarians and ctenophores. As these taxa ...

The purple-striped jelly (Chrysaora colorata, formerly Pelagia colorata) is a species of jellyfish that exists primarily off the coast of California in Monterey Bay.The bell (body) of the ...