Porpita

Porpita

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Perhaps the most beautiful animal in the sea, Porpita, a chondrophoran relative of the siphonophores, is considered to be a single, highly modified polyp. It has a greenhouse-like husk containing a 'garden' full of photosynthetic zooxanthellae.

 

 
 
 
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