🎐Box jellyfish

Chironex fleckeri Southcott, 1956

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 Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. It has been described as "the most lethal jellyfish in the world", with at least 64 known deaths in Australia from 1884 to 2021.

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Chironex fleckeri

Conservation status

Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Chironex fleckeri yet.

Key measurements

Body mass: not recorded
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: not recorded

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Everything we know about the Box jellyfish

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Bell width

0.3 mmaximum recorded, width / bell diameter

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Vespa-do-mar (pt), osa morska (pl), Chironex fleckeri (ru), Cuboméduse d'Australie (fr), Chironex fleckeri (es), Chironex fleckeri (tr) … and 22 more languages

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