Wildlife in Bluff

The Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), also known as the man-of-war or bluebottle, is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It was once thought that there was only one species in the genus Physalia, which in turn would make it the only genus in the family Physaliidae. But recently, through whole genome sequencing, researchers discovered that 4 species ex