Purple jellyfish uses his body as a canvas to travel by wind Bashny.Net

Velella or purple jellyfish use their thin air-filled sail - the blade perpendicular to her body - to float on the ocean surface. These jellyfish are very small, no more than 2, 5 cm in length. The main difference from other jellyfish is the presence of water serving shell pneumatophores or which can be filled with gas. This shell forms a floating sail along the body, the lungs fill with wind.

Sailing arranged tentacles nematocysts, or stinging cells, gonozooids propagation gastrozooid and one in the center for nutrition and digestion of food. Jellyfish live in tropical, warm and temperate waters. His dangling below the main trunk tentacles they use to catch small fish and invertebrates.

Velelly not considered species, endangered, moreover, they are not dangerous to humans. Since jellyfish are caught wind sail, but are not able to manage it, it may eventually turn out to be on some beach. But as velelly harmless, do not worry that their bite will turn any significant consequences.

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