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  1. 1. n. A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst. Source: opted
  2. 2. A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst. Source: webster
  3. 3. A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in thewarmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped,with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded bysmaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slenderdactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, orpneumatocyst. Source: adambom

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