New Zealand Seashore

DSC_0205 Blue-bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis) not a jellyfish at all, but a colony of four minute zooids which cannot live independently, and so they have combined to function together as a unified organism. The characteristic floats wash ashore each summer. Allan's Beach, Otago Peninsula

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DSC_0205 Blue-bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis) not a jellyfish at all, but a colony of four minute zooids which cannot live independently, and so they have combined to function together as a unified organism. The characteristic floats wash ashore each summer. Allan's Beach, Otago Peninsula

DSC 0205 Bluebottle jellyfish Physalia physalis zooids Allan's Beach Otago Peninsula