Unlike true jellyfish, box jellies can swim relatively quickly. Their tentacles are located in each of the four corners of their bell. David Fleetham / Getty Imagesīox jellies are cube-shaped when viewed from above. Keep an eye out for their floats when swimming or walking along the beach in warm areas. This species can deliver a very painful (but rarely deadly) sting, even if they are dead on the beach. Occasionally during stormy weather, they are washed into cooler areas.ĭoes it Sting? Yes. They may be found in tropical and subtropical waters in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean and Sargasso Seas. Where it is Found: Portuguese man o' wars are a warm-water species. Identification: This species can be easily identified by its blue, purple, or pink gas-filled float and long tentacles, which may stretch more than 50 feet. Siphonophores are colonial, and are made up of four different polyps-pneumatophores, which make up the gas float, gastrozooida, which are feeding tentacles, dactylozoodis, polyps that capture prey, and gonozooids, which are used for reproduction. Is it a Jellyfish? Although it looks like a jellyfish and is in the same phylum ( Cnidaria), the Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore in the class Hydrozoa. They are also known as man o' war or blue bottles.

The Portuguese man-of-war is often found washed up on beaches. With the knife moving away from you and the blade slightly angled towards the skin, cut the flesh from the skin in a sawing motion.Justin Hart Marine Life Photography and Art / Getty Images Make a small incision between the flesh and the skin at the tail-end. To remove the skin from a fillet, place it skin-side down onto a work surface and secure the tail-end with your fingertip.

Repeat the process three more times, removing the fillet opposite the first one, and the two fillets on the other side of the fish. Starting at the incision in the centre of the fish, use the tip of the knife to gradually cut the fish from the bone with long sweeping movements, working until the knife reaches the outer edge of the fish. Make an incision down the centre of the fish from the head to the tail. With a sharp pair of scissors, cut off the tail and fins. The backbone in flatfish usually runs along the midline of their body. Fillet flatfish by slicing them along the backbone. Flatfish include plaice, sole, turbot, halibut and brill.

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