Chironex fleckeri

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Chirodropida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Cubozoa Ordo: Chirodropida

Familia: Chirodropidae
Genus: Chironex
Species: Chironex fleckeri

Name edit

Chironex fleckeri Southcott, 1956

Vernacular names edit

dansk: Havhveps
Deutsch: Seewespe
English: Sea-wasp, Box Jellyfish
español: Avispa marina
suomi: Australiankuutiomeduusa, Ampiaismeduusa
français: Cuboméduse
italiano: Vespa di mare
日本語: オーストラリアウンバチクラゲ
lietuvių: Jūrų širšė
Nederlands: Zeewesp
polski: Kostkomeduza
português: Vespa-do-mar

References edit

W. M. Hamner, 1994. Australia's box jellyfish, a killer down under in National Geographic, pp. 116-130.
R. F. Hartwick, 1991. Distributional ecology and behaviour of the early life stages of the box-jellyfish Chironex fleckeri in Hydrobiologia, 216/217, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 181-188, ISSN 1573-5117.

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