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Little Bluebottle

Calliphora stelviana

Classification

Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera

Physalia minuta, also called little bluebottle, is a species of physalid siphonophore native to the oceanic waters around the Southern Hemisphere. Its longer pneumatophore distinguishes it from other species of its genus. Though many systematists have treated its genus, Physalia, as containing a single species, Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man o' war, recent studies, morphological and genetic, have proven there to be upwards of four to five species in the genus, among them being Physalia minuta.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog