Definition of Porpita. Meaning of Porpita. Synonyms of Porpita

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Definition of Porpita

Porpita
Porpita Por"pi*ta, n. [NL., from Gr. ? brooch.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Meaning of Porpita from wikipedia

- Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a marine organism consisting of a colony of hydroids found in the warmer, tropical and sub-tropical waters of...
- Porpita is genus of hydrozoans in the family Porpitidae. It has two species recognized and is the type genus of its family. Porpita is also in the phylum...
- Porpita prunella is a marine species of hydrozoan organisms within the family Porpitidae. It consists of colonies of zooids. Very little is known about...
- synonym to 'porpitid' in discussions of the two genera contained therein, Porpita and Velella. They all live at the surface of the open ocean, and are colonies...
- Chondrophora is no longer used by hydrozoan systematists.[citation needed] Porpita porpita Glaucus atlanticus Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans...
- man o' war (a.k.a. bluebottle, or Physalia utriculus), blue buttons (Porpita porpita), and the by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella). Wikimedia Commons has...
- physalis), the by-the-wind-sailor (Velella velella), the blue button (Porpita porpita), and the violet snail, Janthina janthina. Occasionally, individuals...
- periphyllahelmet jellyfish Porites porites — hump coral, finger coral Porpita porpita — blue button (a siphonop****) Spirorbis spirorbis — an annelid Thal****ema...
- have pelagic larval stages. Velella and Porpita release jellyfish (medusae), and while little is known about Porpita medusae, Velella medusae could possibly...
- pace with the rising water and form an atoll Portuguese man o' war Porpita porpita Lion's mane jellyfish, largest known jellyfish The bioluminescence...