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🎐Box jellyfish
Chironex fleckeri, también conocida como avispa de mar o medusa de caja, es una especie de medusa de la familia Chirodropida. Habita fundamentalmente en aguas costeras australianas. Es considerada la criatura viva más peligrosa, venenosa y letal del mundo.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Chironex fleckeri yet.
- Body mass
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- Body length
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- Shoulder height
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- Top speed
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- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Box jellyfish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Bell width0.3 mmaximum recorded, width / bell diameterSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Not recorded for Box jellyfish yet: body mass, body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumCnidaria
- ›classCubozoa
- ›orderChirodropida
- ›familyChirodropidae
- ›genusChironex
- ›speciesChironex fleckeri
- phylumCorals & jellyfish · Cnidaria
- orderChirodropida
- familyChirodropidae
- genusChironex
All 6 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumCorals & jellyfish · Cnidaria
- classCubozoa
- orderChirodropida
- familyChirodropidae
- genusChironex
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