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Chironex fleckeri is a large box jellyfish found in coastal waters of northern Australia and parts of the Indo-Pacific. Its nearly transparent, box-shaped bell bears four clusters of tentacles containing nematocysts that inject potent venom, which can cause extreme pain, cardiac arrest, and death in...
Carukia barnesi is a tiny cubozoan of Australian waters, roughly 2 cm in bell diameter, responsible for Irukandji syndrome, a severe systemic envenomation first clinically described by Jack Barnes in 1964.
Malo kingi is a very small box jellyfish in the class Cubozoa and one of the organisms associated with Irukandji syndrome. It was formally described in 2007 from specimens collected in Queensland, Australia, and was named for Robert King, a tourist who died in 2002 after being stung near Port Dougla...
A highly venomous box jellyfish of the Indo-Pacific, among the cubozoan species responsible for fatal envenomations in Philippine and Australian waters.
