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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]
Box jellyfish live in warm coastal marine waters around the world, and species with toxic venom are generally found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, between Thailand and the Philippines and off the coast of northern Australia.
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. Habitat. This species occupies the tropical Australian coastal waters from Western Australia through the Northern Territory to Queensland.
Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their box-like (i.e. cube-shaped) body. [2] Some species of box jellyfish produce potent venom delivered by contact with their tentacles.
This includes the Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), considered the most venomous marine animal. Chironex fleckeri is the largest of the box jellyfish, with body sizes reaching up to one foot in diameter and thick, bootlace-like tentacles up to 10 feet long.
Box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off Northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific.
It’s found in tropical coastal waters off the northern parts of the continent, from North Queensland around to northern Western Australia, and its venomous sting has caused the deaths of at least 70 people in Australian waters since records began in the 1880s.
The Australian box jellyfish, scientifically known as Chironex fleckeri, is one of the most intriguing and dangerous marine animals found in the coastal waters of Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. Known for its extremely potent venom and potentially lethal sting, this species has earned a reputation as the ‘hand of death’.
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.
Chironex fleckeri, also known as box jellyfish, lives in and around the waters of Australia and Southeast Asia. They inhabit parts of the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Great Barrier Reef.