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Blue button

Porpita porpita

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Medusas ed autras creaturas da mar che piztgan

Tentaclas che piztganMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

The blue button is a small sea creature that floats on the surface of warm oceans. It looks like a jellyfish, but it is really a colony of tiny animals called polyps. Its sting is not powerful, but it can cause slight skin irritation.1

Viva en

Warm tropical and subtropical Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Arabian Sea1

Ocean Pacific, Ocean Atlantic, Ocean Indic, Mar Caribic, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal

Pagina iniziala

It lives on or near the surface of the sea and drifts with the currents and wind. Recent reports describe large numbers washing up along coastlines in Japan, and increases in the Ionian and Adriatic seas.1

Lunghezza

3 cm (1,2 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 0,36 km/h (0,22 mph)

Nudar, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It is a passive drifter, so it relies on currents and wind to bring food. It mainly feeds on copepods and crustacean larvae, and it can also hunt active crustaceans such as crabs and fish.1

Foto da Blue button — Blue button. Foto: Bruce Moravchik (NOAA). Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

A round, almost flat, hard golden brown float about one inch (2.5 cm) wide1
Bright blue turquoise to yellow polyps hanging from the float1
Blue strands with knobs of stinging cells at the tips1
Looks similar to a jellyfish, but each 'individual' is a colony of polyps1

Savens confundì cun: It looks superficially like a jellyfish. It is related to Velella and to the Portuguese man o' war, which are also colonial animals that float on the surface.1

Forza dal tissi

Tentaclas che piztgan

Millis da pitschnas cellas urticantas sajettan, cura ch'insatge las tutga.

Tge fa ses tissi?

It has stinging cells called nematocysts at the tips of its tentacle-like strands. The sting is not powerful and may cause slight irritation to human skin.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

The sting is not powerful and may cause slight irritation. In recent years, the first recorded case of contact dermatitis (a skin rash caused by contact) from this species was reported in Japan.1

Sch'el piztga

Va or da l'aua e prenda davent las tentaclas (cun manetschas u cun in tschop).
Tar medusas cubicas tropicalas: versa aschieu sin las piztgadas durant almain 30 secundas, clama agid e sajas pront da far ina reanimaziun. Tar galeras portugaisas e las bleras autras: lava cun aua da mar, lura cun aua chauda cunter las dolurs.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania Ocean Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indic Mar Caribic Mar da Timor e d'Arafura Golf dal Bengal

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

var uschè lung sco in clip da palpiri

Quant grond è Blue button cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

Ina lindorna da curtin circa 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Blue button circa 0,36 km/h (0,22 mph)

Ina persuna che nuda circa 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan polyps, not a single animal.1

Young Malabar trevally fish shelter under the floats and panic when removed from them.1

Young Malabar trevally fish appear to prefer a particular colony and will return to their own partner when separated and put back in the same tank.1

It is preyed on by sea slugs known as blue dragons and by violet sea-snails of the genus Janthina.1

The blue button has a single mouth under its float, which it uses for both eating and removing waste.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: A blue button is a single jellyfish-like animal.

Vardad: Each blue button is a colony of hydrozoan polyps, which are related to anemones, corals and jellyfish.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Porpita porpita
Gruppa: Medusas ed autras creaturas da mar che piztgan
Famiglia: Porpitidae2
Urden: Anthoathecata
Continents: Ocean Pacific, Ocean Atlantic, Ocean Indic, Mar Caribic, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Ils oceans
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Porpita porpita (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Porpita porpita (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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