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Velella velella (by-the wind sailor; By-the-wind sailor)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Velella is a cosmopolitan genus of free-floating hydrozoans that live on the surface of the open ocean. There is only one known species, Velella velella, in the genus. Velella velella is commonly known by the names sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail, or simply Velella.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Coastal

Protected Areas

Predators

Hydrobates pelagicus (European Storm-Petrel)[2]
Puffinus griseus (Sooty Shearwater)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2D'Elbée J. & G. Hémery 1998. Diet and foraging behaviour of the British Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus in the Bay of Biscay during summer, Ardea 86: 1-10
♦ 3FEEDING ECOLOGY AND BODY SIZE DEPENDENCE ON DIET OF THE SOOTY SHEARWATER, PUFFINUS GRISEUS, IN THE NORTH PACIFIC, Kouzi SHIOMI and Haruo OGI, Proc. NIPR Symp. Polar Biol., 5, 105-113, 1992
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0