Category:Porpita

Por"pi*ta, n. Etym: [nl., from gr. (zoöl.)

Defn: 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.