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References

• BMLSS (British Marine Life Study Society), (2002). Jellyfish page [On-line] http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Moonjell.htm, 2002-07-02 00:00:00
• Barnes, Robert D., 1980. ;Invertebrate Zoology, 4th edition. ; Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia. ;Hardbound, 1089 pages. ; ISBN 0-03-056747-5. ; This detailed textbookon invertebrate zoology was a major standard for many years and went throughmany editions. ; There are more recent editions of this classic work. ;I often use this edition because it has more detailed information in somesections than later editions do.
• Bayer, F., H. Owre. 1968. The Free-Living Lower Invertebrates. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Boero, Ferdinando
• Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.) (2010). A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
• Brusca, RichardC. and Gary J. Brusca, 1990. ; Invertebrates. ; Sinauer Associates,Sunderland, MA. ; Hardbound. ; 922 pages. ; This authoritativetextbook on invertebrate zoology is one of the present standard references.Second edition published 2003 by Simauer (936 pages, ISBN 0-87893-097-3).
• Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,.. 2002. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115
• Cornwall Wildlife Trust, (2002). Strandings Index: Hydrozoa [On-line] http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/cornwall/strand/hydrozoa.html, 2002-07-02 00:00:00
• De Blauwe, Hans
• Edwards, C., (1959). Occurrence of the chondrophore Velella velella (L.) on western Scottish coasts. The Glasgow Naturalist, 28, 78-81.
• Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Fish, J.D. & Fish, S., (1996). A student's guide to the seashore. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
• Hayward, P., Nelson-Smith, T. & Shields, C., (1996). Collins pocket guide. Sea shore of Britain and northern Europe. London: HarperCollins.
• Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (ed.), (1995b). Handbook of the marine fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
• Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E. (ed.), (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Belfast: Ulster Museum. [Ulster Museum publication, no. 276.]
• Hydrozoa (2012). Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Schuchert, P. (2009) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: Schuchert, P. (2009) World Hydrozoa database at http://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117832 on 2012-05-22
• Kirkpatrick, P. A., & Pugh P. R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids : keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna. 29, 154. London: Published for the Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Brackish-Water Sciences Association by E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys.
• Kirkpatrick, P. A., and P. R. Pugh / Kermack, Doris M., and R. S. K. Barnes, eds. 1984. Siphonophores and Velellids: Keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British Fauna: New Series, no. 29. 1-154
• Kirkpatrick, P.A., & Pugh, P.R., (1984). Siphonophores and Velellids London: Academic Press. [Synopses of the British Fauna No. 29.]
• MEDIN (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN, version 1.0.  
• McGrath, D., (1985). The by-the-wind sailor Velella velella (L) (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa) in Irish waters 1976-1984. The Irish Naturalists Journal, 21, 479-484.
• McGrath, D., (1994). Extraordinary occurrences of the by-the-wind sailor Velella velella (L) (Cnidaria) in Irish waters in 1992 The Irish Naturalists Journal, 24, 383-388.
• Müller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
• Nichols, D. 1979. The Oxford Book of Invertebrates. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Picton, B. E. & Morrow, C.C., (1994). A Field Guide to the Nudibranchs of the British Isles. London: Immel Publishing Ltd.
• Rappé, G. (1989). Larger Cnidaria and Ctenophora from the plankton and pleuston in Belgian waters, in: Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.) (1989). Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". pp. 15-18
• Rappé, G.; Goethaels, R.; d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1988). Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758) and Sepia berthelothi d'Orbigny, 1838 washed ashore on the Belgian beaches [Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758) en Sepia berthelothi d'Orbigny, 1838 aangespoeld op het Belgische strand]. De Strandvlo 8(2): 106-112
• Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp.
• Ricketts, E., J. Calvin, J. Hedgpeth. 1997. Between Pacific Tides (5th edition). Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Russell-Hunter, W. 1979. A Life of Invertebraes. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc..
• Turk, S.M., (1982b). Influx of warm-water oceanic drift animals into Bristol and English Channels summer 1981. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 62 , 487-489.
• UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
• van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120