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Are men-of-war actually jellyfish

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

According to wikipedia:

They are commonly but erroneously thought of as a jellyfish. In fact, a Portuguese Man O' War is not a single animal, but rather a siphonophore - a colony of four kinds of minute, highly modified individuals, which are specialized polyps and medusoids[1].

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