🪼Has anyone seen a Blue button jellyfish? 🪼 Cool facts: Porpita porpita is one of the coolest hydriod colonies in the ocean! This creature is not infact a jellyfish, it is actually a chondrophore which are closely releated to siphonophores. These guys are found drifting on the surface of the ocean! @snorkeldownunder #bluebutton #marinebiology#oceanlife #macro #diving #underwater #scubadivingtrip #SCUBADIVE #scubadivingtrip #scuba #UNDERWATER #marinecreatures #MarineLife | Born of Water Apparel

🎥: snorkeldownunder While the blue button (Porpita porpita) looks like jellyfish, each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan organisms. Hydrozoans are a taxonomic class of individually very small animals, some colonial and some solitary. This taxonomic class falls under phylum Cnidaria, which includes anemones, corals, and jellyfish - explaining their similar appearances! Blue buttons have stinging cells called 'nematocysts', that are used to capture small plantonic animals or a

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Porpita porpita, colloquially known as the blue button jellyfish, is a type of hydrozoan located in the temperate ocean waters. Contrary to its common name, the blue button does not classify as a true jellyfish. Instead, it is a collective of specialized organisms, referred to as zooids, that unite to perform shared functions such as feeding and reproduction. | Club Ocean