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title: "Little Bluebottle"
description: "Physalia minuta — Otros animales. Physalia minuta, also called little bluebottle, is a species of physalid siphonophore native to the oceanic waters around the Southern Hemisphere."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/little-bluebottle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Little Bluebottle

> Physalia minuta — Otros animales. Physalia minuta, also called little bluebottle, is a species of physalid siphonophore native to the oceanic waters around the Southern Hemisphere.

- Scientific name: *Physalia minuta*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 953
- iNaturalist taxon: [1631518](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1631518)

## Names

- en: Little Bluebottle

## Countries with the most observations

NZ (471), AU (307), CL (13), ZA (3)

## Summary

Physalia minuta, also called little bluebottle, is a species of physalid siphonophore native to the oceanic waters around the Southern Hemisphere. Its longer pneumatophore distinguishes it from other species of its genus.
Though many systematists have treated its genus, Physalia, as containing a single species, Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man o' war, recent studies, morphological and genetic, have proven there to be upwards of four to five species in the genus, among them being Physalia minuta. Like all other man o' wars, Physalia minuta is a colonial organism, composed of many organized subunits called zooids…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalia_minuta

## Photo

![Little Bluebottle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/little-bluebottle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Peter de Lange · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24876858

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/little-bluebottle?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).