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Recently, in 2023, a new genus and species of box jellyfish was discovered in the Indo-Pacific region, specifically the Gulf of Thailand. Discovered and named after scientist Lisa-ann Gershwin , this new species of box jellyfish, Gershwinia thailandensis , is a member of the Carukiidae family.
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]
Carybdea murrayana, the South African box jellyfish, is a venomous species of cnidarian, in the small family Carybdeidae within the class Cubozoa. Description [ edit ]
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]
Tripedalia is a genus within the family Tripedaliidae that is part of the box jellyfish, also known as the Cubozoa. There are only three known species within Tripedalia: T. cystophora, T. binata [1] and T. maipoensis. [2]
The name Malo is derived by the first two letters of the name of Mark Longhurst, who survived a severe sting by a jellyfish apparently from the genus shortly before the publication of its discovery. The author, Gershwin, also noted the "interesting coincidence that the word “malo” is Spanish for “bad”, as this species is presumed to be ...
Alatina is a genus of box jellyfish within class Cubozoa. It is the largest of the three known genera in the family Alatinidae, and the only one which is not monotypic. It contains the following ten species: Alatina alata (Reunaud, 1830) Alatina grandis (Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)
Carybdea marsupialis was once considered a widespread species found in warm oceans around the world.Taxonomic reviews have shown that most of these are other species in the genus Carybdea, with the true C. marsupialis essentially restricted to the Mediterranean Sea. [5]