What is the difference between a jelly fish and a portuguese man of war?

Question

my husband and i thought we got stung by a jelly fish in the ocean off of the biloxi ms coast but now i'm hearing about this portuguese man of war thing and was just wondering what the difference was

Answer 1

Aggressive stinger jelly fish  

Answer 2

Well one is a gooey sea creature, the other is a really pissed off guy speaking something that sounds oddly similar to spanish...

Answer 3

A man of war is a really big jellyfish. it's just bigger, and deadlier

Answer 4

A jellyfish is a single animal in the Phylum Cnidaria (the same group that contains anemones and corals).  A Portuguese Man-of-War is actually a whole colony of animals and is called a Siphonophore.  The animals that make up the colony are also in the Phylum Cnidaria.  Each zooid (the name for the individual animals in the colony) has a specific function, and most zooids cannot live on their own.