Order

Siphonophorae (Siphonophores)

Physophora hydrostatica. Photo: (c) Simon Varney, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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The Siphonophorae or Siphonophora, the siphonophores, are an order of the Hydrozoa, a class of marine animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. Although a siphonophore may appear to be a single organism, each specimen is in fact a colonial organism composed of small individual animals called zooids that have their own special function for survival. Most colonies are long, thin, transparent pelagic floaters. Some siphonophores superficially resemble jellyfish, one example being the venomous Portuguese man o’…

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Subtaxa

Suborder: Physonectae

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