Chironex fleckeri

Chironex fleckeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chirodropida 

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

Familia: Chirodropidae
Genus: Chironex
Species:

Name

Chironex fleckeri Southcott, 1956

Vernacular names

  • 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

  • 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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