Box Jellyfish Chironex fleckeri
A sting from the box jellyfish can kill a person in only a few minutes, and this small animal is considered one of the most venomous in the ocean.
Box Jellyfish Range
Fast Facts
Type: Invertebrate Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: Less than 1 year Size: 10 ft (3 m) long; 10 in (25 cm) across Weight: Up to 4.
The box jellyfish is as fast as an olympic swimmer with 24 eyes.
Deep sea jelly
Decade of Discovery ...
Mystery animal (Box Jellyfish) - Received from Miranda in Surrey, B.C.
Chironex fleckeri, Box Jellyfish
Chiroteuthis veranyi veranyi, Long-armed Squid
Choridactylus multibarbus, Orangebanded Stingfish
Chromis insolata, Sunshinefish
Chromis analis, Yellow Chromis
Chromis chromis, Damselfish ...
More than a decade later another physician, Jack Barnes, suspected a thumb-size, quick-swimming box jellyfish was the culprit.
The complete lack of a brain means that the jellyfish cannot help but sting you - unless it is a Box Jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) which can control itself efficiently, even without a brain.
Though most jellyfish stings are not deadly, other stings, such as those perpetrated by the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) — the most venomous marine creature and possibly the most venomous of any creature on earth — may be fatal.
The box jellyfish, found in the oceans around Australia, has a sting powerful enough to be fatal to humans. The long tentacles of the jellyfish are what produces the sting. Its been tried and tested...
One of multiple sets of eyes allows a box jellyfish to look up and stay safe in its mangrove home.
Whales feasted on krill buffet, could spell problems in future.
Image Gallery: Jellyfish Rule! ...
Class: Cubozoa (sea wasps or box jellyfish)
Class: Scyphozoa (cup animals and jellyfishes)
Class: Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
Class: Hydrozoa (hydrazoans) ...
I left early the next morning for the East Point Reserve. This is a park with several beach areas. The beaches are beautiful, but signs warn against swimming here because of the very poisonous box jellyfish. I can't believe people actually live here.
 See also: Box jelly, Jellyfish, Turtle, Sea Turtle, Shell
  
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