Man-of-War+Jellyfish

**Common Name**: Man O' War, Portuguese Man of War **Scientific Name**:  //Physalia physalis // **Class**: Hydrozoa  **Location**: Tropical regions of the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Northern Atlantic Gulf Stream, Spain, Corsica, Welsh, Costa Rica, Guyana, Pakistan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, California. **Size**: 12 inches long, 5 inches wide, and tentacles can get up to 165 ft long.



**Habitat**: Open oceans, bays, beaches during strong onshore winds. **Living Requirements**: Warm ocean waters. Man of Wars also need to eat zooplankton, comb jellies, and other sort of jellyfish. **Life Cycle**: They only tend to live for a few months.



**Male/Female Differences**: The sperm of one mature colonial hydroid fertilizes the egg of another reproducing a larva. **Interesting Facts **: Portuguese Man of Wars travel in groups of 1,000 or more. The Blanket Octopus is immune to the Man of War's venom, and they rip off the Man of War's tentacles and use them as a defense purpose. It was named the "Portuguese Man of War" because it looks similar to a Portuguese battleship with a sail. 

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