Best Box Jelly
Tripedalia cystophora is a small species of box jellyfish found in shallow tropical mangrove habitats, particularly in the Caribbean region. Like other cubozoans, it has four sensory structures called rhopalia; together these carry 24 eyes of several types, including camera-like eyes with lenses. Re...
Alatina alata is a species of box jellyfish in the class Cubozoa, recorded from warm marine waters in several tropical and subtropical regions. It has a translucent, box-shaped bell and four muscular pedal structures from which its tentacles extend. The species is venomous and has been associated wi...
A highly venomous box jellyfish of the Indo-Pacific, among the cubozoan species responsible for fatal envenomations in Philippine and Australian waters.
Chiropsalmus quadrumanus is a species of box jellyfish in the class Cubozoa found in warm western Atlantic waters, including the Gulf of Mexico. Its box-shaped bell bears muscular structures from which clusters of tentacles extend, and those tentacles contain stinging cells used in prey capture and...
Carybdea alata is a species of cubozoan, or box jellyfish, with a documented distribution across tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Like other cubozoans, it possesses a transparent, box-shaped bell and four tentacles equipped with nematocysts capable of deliveri...
Copula sivickisi is a minuscule species of box jellyfish belonging to the family Tripedaliidae, inhabiting shallow coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific region. Reaching only a few millimeters in bell diameter, it is distinguished by its complex reproductive strategy, which involves internal fertilizat...
Tamoya ohboya is a species of box jellyfish belonging to the family Carybdeidae, formally described in 2011 from specimens collected in the Caribbean Sea. It is characterized by its pale, translucent bell and multiple tentacles that can deliver a highly painful, venomous sting to humans. The species...
An Australian box jellyfish in the family Tamoyidae, capable of causing Irukandji-like syndrome through envenomation from its tentacle nematocysts.
*Carybdea marsupialis* is a species of box jellyfish belonging to the class Cubozoa, predominantly found in the Mediterranean Sea and parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Measuring only a few centimeters in bell diameter, this transparent cnidarian possesses four tentacles equipped with nematocysts used to...
Keesingia gigas is a large species of box jellyfish discovered in the coastal waters of Western Australia and scientifically described in 2014. It belongs to the class Cubozoa and is notable for its unusually large bell size, which can reach up to 50 centimeters in length. Uniquely among jellyfish,...
A small box jellyfish found in Australian and New Zealand coastal waters, commonly called the Jimble and notorious for delivering painful stings.
Alatina mordens is an Indo-Pacific box jellyfish (family Alatinidae) whose potent venom triggers Irukandji syndrome, a potentially life-threatening condition in humans.
A cubozoan jellyfish found in tropical Atlantic waters and one of the earliest formally described members of the family Tamoyidae.
A large box jellyfish found in Queensland, Australia, described in the early 2000s and capable of inflicting severe Irukandji-like stings.
A box jellyfish of the Caribbean and western Atlantic belonging to family Chirodropidae, possessing multiple tentacles on each of its four muscular pedalia.
A box jellyfish found in Hawaiian and central Pacific waters, formerly classified within Carybdea before reclassification into the genus Alatina.
An Australian chirodropid box jellyfish first formally described from Queensland waters, belonging to the multi-tentacled family Chirodropidae.
The former classification name for what was reclassified as Copula sivickisi; a carybdeid box jellyfish from Indo-Pacific coastal waters with a small, transparent bell.
Carybdea brevipedalia is a cubozoan box jellyfish found in Japanese coastal waters, notable for its shortened pedalia and studied in the context of human envenomation in Japan.
Carybdea xaymacana is a cubozoan box jellyfish of the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic, its species epithet derived from Xaymaca, the indigenous Taíno name for Jamaica.
A box jellyfish described from Australian waters, belonging to family Chirodropidae and characterized by multiple tentacles arising from each pedalium.
A stalked jellyfish found in Japanese coastal waters, notable as one of the few staurozoans formally described from the western Pacific Ocean.
