Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) is a siphonophore, a type of colonial organism made of tiny zooids. #SciArt by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre for Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Manuel d'Actinologie ou de Zoophytologie (1836). View more in #BHLib: http://ow.ly/dyiw309kOf1 _________________________________________________ #PortugueseManOfWar #ManOfWar #Invertebrates #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory














