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Blue Glaucus Atlanticus Research Paper

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What you are about to read will tell you what a Blue Glaucus Atlanticus is and where it’s habitat is, it’s lifecycle, what it looks like, and what is it’s diet. The Blue Glaucus mainly a on hydrozoans although there also known to be cannibalistic. One of the specialities of their diet is the Portugese Man-O-War, Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), they're known for their painful stings that they give when you touch their tentacles. The Blue Glaucus will eat the tentacles, both the fired and unfired stinging cells will pass these stings into special pouches in their cerata which they then use for defence. The Blue Glaucus has four stages in their life cycle, stage one is when the Blue Glaucus will hatch from the egg strings and will be 1

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