{"scientificNameAuthorship":"(La Martiniere, 1787)","RecordModifiedOn":"2013-04-29","CAAB_code":"11097001","phylum":"Cnidaria","Notes":"This species has previously been recorded in Australian waters as <i>Physalia physalis</i>, which was previously regarded as being a cosmopolitan species but is probably restricted to the Atlantic. <i>P. utriculus</i> is much smaller (float <10cm) than <i>P. physalis</i>, and has only a single main tentacle. There are also several other, possibly undescribed, species of <i>Physalia</i> in Australian waters. See Gershwin et.al., 2010.","habitat":"Marine unspecified<br>Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic)<br>","NameVerifiedSource":"Gershwin, L.-A., Zeidler, W., Davie, P.J.F., 2010. Medusae (Cnidaria) of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia., <i>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature</i>, Vol. 54(3): 47-108.","Parent_Id":11097901,"scientificName":"Physalia utriculus","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Siphonophorae","otherVernacularNames":"","Reference":"Edgar, G. J., 2000, <i>Australian marine life: the plants and animals of temperate waters (Revised Edition)</i>. Reed New Holland, Sydney","vernacularName":"bluebottle","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2002-06-27","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387269","family":"Physaliidae","standardName":"","class":"Hydrozoa","scientificNameID_AFD":"urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f0c40591-1d07-4b81-9b0e-426d9a8c2d7f","CAAB_status":"Valid"}