Crossotais a genus of jellyfish in the broader family ofRhopalonematidae. There are currently 5 species listed in the genus. The various species of the genus are distributed broadly across the world’s oceans. Portuguese Man O’ W...
Is a box jellyfish deadly? Many species of box jellyfish are toxic enough to kill humans, but not all of them are fatal to humans. For example, Irukandji jellyfish and Australian box jelly are both fatally toxic, while the mangrove jellyfish is not toxic to humans. ...
A new species of box jellyfish, Copula lucentia sp. nov., is described from El Campello, Spain, and compared to the holotype of Copula sivickisi that was successfully recovered after being lost for almost 60years. So far, the only cubozoan species recorded in the Western Mediterranean was ...
Related to boxfish:Box jellyfish box·fish (bŏks′fĭsh′) n.pl.boxfishorbox·fish·es 1.Any of various usually colorful fishes of the family Ostraciidae of warm coastal waters, having a boxlike shape with the body enclosed in bony armorlike plates. Also calledtrunkfish. ...
Venom Proteome of the Box Jellyfish Chironex fleckeri. Brinkman Diane L,Aziz Ammar,Loukas Alex,Potriquet Jeremy,Seymour Jamie,Mulvenna Jason. PloS one ... DL Brinkman,A Aziz,A Loukas,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 55发表: 2012年 A New Genus and species of Box Jellyfish (Cubozoa: Cary...
Cubozoans or box jellyfish include members of the highly venomous genus Chironex and have been responsible for numerous fatalities in tropical and subtropical coastal regions of the world. The most notorious of these is Chironex fleckeri, which has been responsible for 77 deaths in Australia ...
It is also important to note, that many of the species in these three families harbor a powerful toxin, tetradotoxin, which is found in the viscera and gonads. Some parts of the fugu (species from theTakifugugenus), are considered a delicacy in Japan, but have enough poison to kill arou...
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Numerous severe and fatal cases of jellyfish stings have been reported from the Gulf of Thailand, and chirodropid box jellyfish have been suspected to be responsible for them. Despite the severity of these envenomations, only a few studies have been conducted on the jellyfish in this region....
Box jellyfish, (class Cubozoa), any cnidarian (or coelenterate) belonging to the class Cubozoa. The class is made up of approximately 50 species, which are known for their semitransparent box-shaped bell and the toxic venom produced by some species. Box