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Summary[edit] Description: Cnidocytes Desiccation doesn't staunch it; the creature can be dead, yet the blue sting lingers, primed for inflicting pain. It's as though, by some osmosis, those strings of cells had leached the ocean's pigments, transmuted surf and sky into poison: a perfect concentrate, pure as lapis. Coelenterates have evolved, out of jelly, an exquisite armoury against higher animals: penetrant, glutinant, volvent, all deployed blindly - touch-triggered murders, without a trace of malice. They cooperate: buoyant on pucker-sealed pneumatocysts, spine-primed cnidocytes are eager to glut sucker-mouthed gastrozooids with stunned and twitching flesh. Poem by Giles Watson, 2013. The picture shows tentacles of a stranded specimen of Physalia utriculus, the Portugese Man o' War, colloquially known as the Bluebottle. Date: 20 November 2013, 08:40. Source: Cnidocytes. Author: Giles Watson from Oxfordshire, England.
Summary[edit] English: Physalia utriculus, washed ashore with onshore winds 03 / 28 / 2007 St. Augustine Beach South /Florida. 28 March 2007 Licensing[edit] I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: : Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue. : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:.. This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.:. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0 CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5-2.0-1.0 truetrue. You may select the license of your choice.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Sometimes called the Indo-Pacific Portuguese Man-of-War, this Blue Bottle Jellyfish was found on Teewah Beach in Queensland, Australia. Date: 14 March 2011, 15:55:28. Source: Own work. Author: SedonaGuy. Teewah Beach, Noosa North Shore, Queensland, Australia Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A Blue Bottle (physalia utriculus) at the beach somewhere in Australia Deutsch: Eine Blue-Bottle Qualle am Strand. Date: 16 March 2003. Source: Own work Selbst fotografiert. Author: NaNuu Michael Fried.