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Physalia physalis

Physalia physalis

Aretuza(+44)·(Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF:299605565

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Habitat

Marine

Characteristics

Extant

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(40)

Sargasso Sea
Tropical Pacific Ocean
Tropical Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Gulf of Mexico
FAO fishing area 67
Villefranche-Sur-Mer
Tropical Pacific Ocean
Plymouth
Dunkerque
Cobscook Bay
Australian part of the Bass Strait
Colombian part of the North Pacific Ocean
Bretagne
Wimereux
uncertain
Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Brazilian part of the South Atlantic Ocean
Japanese part of the North Pacific Ocean
North West Atlantic
Atlantic Europe
Poulo Condore
North Pacific
Algerian part of the Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
introduced
Gulf of Mexico
Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone
Gulf of Maine
Boulogne-sur-Mer
North East Pacific
South Atlantic
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
European waters (ERMS scope)
Wimereux
Indian Ocean
Colombian part of the Caribbean Sea
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone

DATA

Occurrence Datasets

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 26 languages.

polAretuzapolengAtlantic Man o' WarengdeuBlasenqualledeuafrBloublasieafrpolBąbelnica bąbelcowapol+40 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 26 languages.

polAretuza
pol
engAtlantic Man o' War
eng
deuBlasenqualle
deu
afrBloublasie
afr
polBąbelnica bąbelcowa
pol
porCaravela Portuguesa
por
porCaravela-portuguesa-do-Atlântico
por
turFizalya (Yelken Sifonofor)
tur
Katiaho
mri
engMan o' War
eng
fraPhysalie
fra
Portugala militŝipo
epo
finPortugalinsotalaiva
fin
litPortugališkasis laivelis
lit
nldPortugees oorlogsschip
nld
deuPortugiesische Galeere
deu
norPortugisisk krigsskip
nor
danPortugisisk orlogsmand
dan
swePortugisisk örlogsman
swe
engPortuguese Man'O War
eng
engPortuguese man o' war
eng
engPortuguese man o’ war
eng
engPortuguese man-o-war
eng
engPortuguese man-of-war
eng
engRosy-crested Man o' War
eng
deuSeeblase
deu
balandra
engbluebottle
eng
spabotella azul
spa
spacarabela portuguesa
spa
itacaravella portoghese
ita
catcaravel·la portuguesa
cat
catfragata portuguesa
cat
fragalère portugaise
fra
cesměchýřovka portugalská
ces
hunportugál gálya
hun
fravessie de mer
fra
polŻeglarz portugalski
pol
polŻywłoga
pol
rusПортугальский кораблик
rus
benভাসমান সন্ত্রাস
ben
thaแมงกะพรุนไฟหมวกโปรตุเกส
tha
jpnカツオノエボシ
jpn
zho僧帽水母
zho
kor작은부레관해파리
kor

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299605565
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2264734
Taxon ID
4HFBD
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026