Siphonophores feed on a variety of small sea animals, including plankton, fish and small crustaceans. The species that use ...

The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made up of ... in venom-filled nematocysts used to paralyze and kill fish and other small creatures. For humans, a man-of-war sting is ...

this posture is undertaken by siphonophores when they want to feed. Several tentacles in this situation protrude out of the creature ready to trap small prey like crustaceans and fish. Because of ...

and also sometimes on fish larvae and young food fishes. When conditions are suitable, they can reproduce rapidly and may occasionally become the dominant predator. Morphology Most siphonophore ...