Amazing and unique animal Velella
Velella velella - a representative of a small colonial hydroids, oceanic pelagic species. The only member of the genus.The species is widespread in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the oceans, in Europe are found in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and the west coast. Key findings on individuals of species are known, cast ashore on the coast of the UK and Ireland.
Inside the colonies formed by flat air-filled chamber of chitin, which is covered with a mantle. It was she who maintains the entire colony on the surface of the water. The base of the colony is an oval reinforced chitin structures.
Floats on the surface of the water. Among the individuals of this species there are about an equal number of "right-handed" and "left-handed" copies: differ in the direction in which the diagonally from the front end is chamfered they "sail"
