Bluebottles are a type of siphonophore, an order of weird marine organisms that all have this communal, pirate-party-ship vibe. It’s clear Gershwin has a soft spot for them. So is to ­correct ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

It’s technically a siphonophore but who’s keeping track of those details? It looks like a jellyfish, swims like a jellyfish and ultimately it stings like a jellyfish, so it might as well be a ...

Observations also showed that the siphonophore feeds on fish larvae and, in one instance, a chaetognath. This is a small predatory marine worm. “Seeing the photos of these spectacular animals ...

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 ...