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Australian Box Jellyfish
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Australian Box Jellyfish
"The deadliest marine creature"
Domain: Eukaryote
Kingdom: Animilia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Cubozoa
Order: Chirodropida
Family: Chirodropidae
Genus: Chironex
Species: C. Fleckeri
Physical Description
(of the Australian Box Jellyfish)
The Box Jellyfish, also known as "Sea wasps" or "Marine stingers" is what is said to be the deadliest marine creature. The Box Jelly is said to be a pale blue and transparent (see through ) in color. They get their name from their box or cube like shape.
Physical description
Feeding patterns/ nutrition
(of the Australian box jellyfish)
The Box jellyfish is a carvavoir. Meaning that it eats other animals. They eat many different things, they eat small fish, crustateans (or shellfish) and even other jellyfish.
Feeding/nutrient
video of Australian Box Jelly eating
Habitat/ locations found
The Box Jellyfish is found in many different regions of the world. It is said to be found in tropical and subtropical areas. It can be as far north as California and Japan, and as far south as South Africa and New Zealand.
(with the Australian Box Jellyfish)
Habitat/location
Reproduction
(Of the Australian Box jellyfish)
The reproduction of box jellyfish includes both asexual and sexual ways of reproducing. The sexual way of reproducing is by fertilizing a females egg with a males sperm. An asexual way would be budding for a Box Jellyfish. It would involve a small "bud" growing on/in the jelly and then popping off.
Reproduction
Relationships with other animals
(Of the Australian Box Jellyfish)
Relations with other animals
The Australian Box Jellyfish has not many relations. Besides those with other species. It eats small fish and shrimp. With the Sea Turtle being its only predator because of its thick hide.
History/ Evolution
(Of the Australian Box Jellyfish)
Irukanji Jellyfish
History/ Evolution
The (Australian) Box Jellyfish is a cube-like jellyfish that is extremely venomous and can be fatal. The evolutionary history of this creature is not very known to scientists because of a lack of sound "phylogenetic" hypothosis about the group. It does have close cousins like the Irukandji Jellyfish which have similar deadly toxins.
Australian Box Jellyfish
Interesting Facts!
Did you know... That the Australian Box Jellyfish is titled "The deadliest marine creature" because of its extremely toxic venom?
(About the Australian Box Jellyfish)
interesting Facts
Did you know... That there have been 64 reported cases of Australian Box Jellyfish killing and/or injurying people?
Did you know... That the Australian Box Jellyfish's cousin, The Irukanji Jellyfish can cause a sickness known as the "Irukandji Symdrome"?
Work sited page
(for my australian Box Jellyfish research)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IC7lSuOhhLFho1qnMqVlCcpd4mwnnb0-ggmD7Mdlztw/edit
“Box Jellyfish | National Geographic.” Animals, 10 Sept. 2010, www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/box-jellyfish#:~:text=Box%20jellies%2C%20also%20called%20sea.
“Jellyfish Eating Fish.” Www.youtube.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQJG4HWdZIs. Accessed 30 Mar. 2021.
“Box Jellyfish Facts, the World’s Most Venomous Animal.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/box-jellyfish-4771120#:~:text=and%20New%20Zealand.-.
US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “What Is the Most Venomous Marine Animal?” Oceanservice.noaa.gov, oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/box-jellyfish.html#:~:text=They%20have%20clusters%20of%20eyes.
Griffiths, Ellie. “Transparent & Deadly: 7 Facts about the Australian Box Jellyfish.” Culture Trip, theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/transparent-deadly-7-facts-about-the-australian-box-jellyfish/.
Bentlage, Bastian, et al. “Evolution of Box Jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a Group of Highly Toxic Invertebrates.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 277, no. 1680, 7 Feb. 2010, pp. 493–501, 10.1098/rspb.2009.1707.
“Chironex Fleckeri.” Wikipedia, 14 Aug. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chironex_fleckeri#Distribution_and_habitat. Accessed 13 Sept. 2022.
“Carukia Barnesi.” Wikipedia, 27 Sept. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carukia_barnesi.
Work sited
Page with all my research