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Velella velella
I think it was a Physalia physalis, but I'm not sure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_...
Spotted on Aug 11, 2011
Submitted on Dec 11, 2011
4 Comments
I do appreciate the help!
My english is very bad but I'll try to add a description;)
Blue is amazing. The end of summer the beach is full of blue spots!
Oh yay, that's awesome! I'm glad I could help :) Maybe you could add some info about Velella in the description now :D It's got such a gorgeous blue colour, doesn't it?
Thanks for the comment!
Yes, it is a Velella velella!
thanks
It's hard to be 100% sure from the picture, it could be a Man o' War (Physalia), but it could be another organism closely related to it called a by-the-wind sailor (it doesn't have the long tentacles that Physalia has, which would probably be visible in the pic). The genus for that one is Velella. If you have a look on Google Images, you could see if it matches more what you saw on the beach :)