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A scale illustration of an Irukandji jellyfish and its tentacles.Below the jelly's medusa bell are two polyp forms of the species.. Irukandji jellyfish are very small, with a bell about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) wide and four long tentacles, which range in length from just a few centimetres up to 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length.
Chironex fleckeri, commonly known as the Australian box jelly, and nicknamed the sea wasp, is a species of extremely venomous box jellyfish found in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea to Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. [1]
Depending on species, a fully grown box jellyfish can measure up to 20 cm (8 in) along each box side (30 cm or 12 in in diameter), and the tentacles can grow up to 3 m (10 ft) in length. Its weight can reach 2 kg (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb). [19] However, the thumbnail-sized Irukandji is a box jellyfish, and lethal despite its small size. There are about ...
Malo maxima is a small, and extremely dangerous Irukandji jellyfish that is known to cause Irukandji syndrome.It is one of the four species of Malo, along with Malo bella, Malo filipina, and Malo kingi.
Carybdea murrayana, the South African box jellyfish, is a venomous species of cnidarian, in the small family Carybdeidae within the class Cubozoa. Description
Unlike many other jellyfish species, the ones in this lake are not dangerous to humans. This unique location offers a safe environment for swimming with jellyfish. Image credits: Aquaimages
According to the Daily Mail, it was a small detail -- the hexagonal pattern on the creature's skin -- that gave strong evidence that this jellyfish is actually a Deepstaria reticulum, or a ...
Malo kingi or the common kingslayer is a species of Irukandji jellyfish.It was first described to science in 2007, and is one of four species in the genus Malo. [1] It has one of the world's most potent venoms, even though it is no bigger than a human thumbnail. [2]