Portuguese men-o'-war were creatures that bore a distinct physical resemblance to the Oswaft, given both species' shared attributes of tentacular ribbons hanging from their ventral sides and the perfect glassy transparency, with hints and flashes of inner color, of their bodies.
This quote is the only mention of the Portuguese man-o'-war, but it is not clear if it was meant to be out-of-universe or not.
In Part 2 of Barely Tolerable: Alien Henchmen of the Empire by Abel G. Peña, the planet Portug was included as a reference to a on the Star Wars fan wiki Wookieepedia.
In the 1994 compilation The Lando Calrissian Adventures, it is spelled "Portugese man-o'-war", without the second U.
This quote is the only mention of the Portuguese man-o'-war, but it is not clear if it was meant to be out-of-universe or not.
In Part 2 of Barely Tolerable: Alien Henchmen of the Empire by Abel G. Peña, the planet Portug was included as a reference to a on the Star Wars fan wiki Wookieepedia.
In the 1994 compilation The Lando Calrissian Adventures, it is spelled "Portugese man-o'-war", without the second U.