COMMENTS OF MUSEUM SPECIMEN
Distributions:-
Physalia is found in tropical and sub-tropical Seas.
Habit and Habitat:-
Physalia is a marine, colonial swimming or floating pelagic animal.
Character:-
Physalia is a colonial hydroid commonly known as portuguese men of war.
i) Colony has a large pneumatophore with bladder-like elongated points of both ends 6 to 18 cm long.
ii) The Swimming bells of necto calyces are absent.
iii) Tentacles are large and bear stinging batteries or nematocysts to kill the large fishes and prey.
Economic importance of physalia
physalia:-
They are important in human Jewelry or in the House.
physalia protects the fish from the predators with its stinging cells while the first attracts the largest fishes towards. physalia and thus helps in supplying food to physalie.
