How is the portuguese man of war born?

Answer 1

It is not a jellyfish, but a grouping of polyps that are all different and work together. Its sting to human is sometimes fatal, and if it is treated the same way as a jellyfish sting it is even more severe and likely to cause death. the average length of tentacles is 3 feet, some have been reported at 50 feet. It has a sail filled with air that can sometimes deflate to be submerged, as it has to stay wet. It has no way to move itself so it flows with the wind and tide.
Cnydaria.

Answer 2

The float looks like a Portuguese battleship

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No one knows for sure how the jelly got its name. Most suppose that it does resemble a Portuguese ship, but there are many problems with that assumption.

Portuguese ships were seldom called man o' wars, but rather simply referred to as their type- caravels, carracks, or galleons. The Portuguese name for the physalia is 'Portuguesa caravela'. The triangle shaped sails of the caravel latina is often credited with the origin of the name; however, there is nothing triangular about the shape of a physalia, and little reason to add the English term, Man of War to its name. The Pinta and Niña were caravels, while the Santa Maria was a carrack.

It may reasonably be suggested that the jelly was named after Portuguese soldiers, or 'men of war', because it looked just like Portuguese soldier's comb morion helmets. The Portuguese were the first explorers during the Age of Discovery, and the first to secure an open ocean empire.

Less popular is the belief that when the English dominated the seas in their Man of War ships, they were disparaging the smaller Portuguese sailing ships by calling a rather diminutive floating jelly a Portuguese 'Man of War'.

An inference can be drawn from the origin of the English term, Man of War. The first use of the English term "a man of war ship" (for a ship of the line) refers to the soldiers aboard the vessel. The strict rule for only feminine appellations for sea vessels gives assurance that the expression originally referred to the soldiers aboard the ship, instead of the ship itself. As the term grew more common in the language, it became shortened to "man of war", and sometimes "man o' war". While clearly not a definitive argument, it does lend some credence to the idea that the 'Portuguese Man of War' could just as well have originally referred to Portuguese soldiers as to their sailing ships.

It is likely that we will never know with any certainty.

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I have reviewed the early writings about this jelly. It seems that indeed early references call it 'caravella', so I amend my above writing to say that I now think that the standard reference about a sailing vessel is correct. I really don't think that it looks like a sailing ship, but then I know nothing.

Answer 3

The Portuguese Man'o'War, <i>Physalia physalis</i>, is found in the warmer regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Because of polyps modified into a giant float, they always live at the very surface of the ocean.

Answer 4

It was not considered to be, because of the venom in their stings were different from other jellyfish. If you were stung by the Man of War the treatment for other jellyfish stings actually worsen the sting of the Man of War, but not 100% sure that they are not considered to be jellyfish.

Answer 5

Physalias breed during an aggregation of adults in the fall by broadcast fertilization. The females drop eggs and the males drop sperm. Once fertilized, a single cell zygote starts mitotic cell division and is then called a blastula. The blastula continues mitotic cell division and each cell then differentiates into two different epithelial tissues, either ectodermal (outer layer) or endodermal (internal layer). At this point the larva is named a planula, with the ectodermis developing swimming ciliae (hairs) that allows it to move. So far, this development is fairly consistent among most cnidarians.

But where physalias (and other siphonophores) deviate from the common path is that they never attach themselves to a substrate and just start budding (asexually cloning) from the founding polyp (the original planula). The physalia founding polyp morphs into a float (pneumataphor) while he (or she) clones polyps that metamorphize into one of three distinct polyps, the feeding guy, the stinging guy, or the sex guy (or girl). The rest of the story I trust you already know.

Answer 6

the portuguese man o' war is 10 meters (33)ft long

Answer 7

Sea turtles, sea slugs, and sometimes sharks.

Answer 8

I don't believe man 'o war have many natural enemies.

Answer 9

Method of locomotion, Is armed with a great number of tiny stinging cells called nematocysts