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] .

2024年10月31日 · Also known as sea wasps and marine stingers, box jellyfish belong to the Cubozoa class which includes 50 described species. A box jelly can have up to 15 tentacles with about 5,000 stinging cells, known as cnidocysts that it uses to kill prey.

The sea wasp, also known as the box jellyfish, is infamous for its lethal sting and may be the most venomous organism alive today. Learn more about the sea wasp.

2024年6月16日 · Of the 50 or so species of box jellyfish, also called sea wasps, only a few have venom that can be lethal to humans. While box jellyfish are found in warm coastal waters around the world, the lethal varieties are found primarily in the Indo-Pacific region and northern Australia.

2022年12月21日 · The sea wasp, also known as Chironex fleckeri or box jellyfish, lives in Australian and the south-eastern Asian waters. There are almost 200 known species of jellyfish swimming in our planet’s seas. While many jellyfish are actually harmless, scientists think that the sea wasp is the most poisonous marine animal discovered so far. Its venom ...

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. It has been described as "the most lethal jellyfish in the world ...

and Chiropsalmus, commonly called sea wasps, occur widely from Queensland northward to about Malaya. These forms have remarkably sophisticated eyes, and they are dangerously venomous; a moderate sting can cause death within a few minutes. In all the box jellies so far studied, the polyp stage produces but a…

The infamous sea jelly is large and transparent with a box-shaped bell and up to 60 tentacles in four clumps along the base of the bell. This species occupies the tropical Australian coastal waters from Western Australia through the Northern Territory to Queensland.

Sea wasp or Chironex fleckeri, is an infamous lethally venomous species of Box jellyfish living in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea north to the Philippines and Vietnam. It is considered the most lethal jellyfish in the world because of the numerous incidents resulting in injury or death to humans.

Five species of toxic pelagic marine coelenterates (Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-o' war; Chrysaora quinquecirrha, the sea nettle; Chironex fleckeri, the sea wasp; Chiropsalmus quadrigatus, also called the sea wasp and Stomolophus meleagris, the cabbage head jellyfish) have recently been studied. Two of these animals can be lethal to ...