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title: "Blue Button"
description: "Porpita porpita — Inne zwierzęta. Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a marine organism consisting of a colony of hydroids"
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/blue-button
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue Button

> Porpita porpita — Inne zwierzęta. Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a marine organism consisting of a colony of hydroids
found in the warmer, tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific,
Atlantic, and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Arabian Sea.

- Scientific name: *Porpita porpita*
- Category: `other` (Inne zwierzęta)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 5120
- Wikidata: [Q2535508](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2535508)
- iNaturalist taxon: [59683](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59683)

## Names

- en: Blue Button
- de: Blauknopf
- es: Medusa botón azul
- fr: Porpite

## Countries with the most observations

US (2202), AU (872), IN (393), MX (293), NZ (166), ZA (148), EC (86), BR (79), TW (72), UY (46), JP (45), TH (39)

## Summary

Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a marine organism consisting of a colony of hydroids
found in the warmer, tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific,
Atlantic, and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Arabian Sea.
It was first identified by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, under the basionym Medusa porpita.
In addition, it is one of the two genera under the suborder Chondrophora, which is a group of cnidarians that also includes Velella.
The chondrophores are similar to the better-known siphonophores, which includes the Portuguese man o' war, or Physalia physalis. Although it is superficially…

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

## Photo

![Blue Button](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-button/medium.jpg)

Photo: Yann Kemper · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193905886

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-button?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).