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 New Guinea to Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. [1]

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 New Guinea to Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Box jellyfish live in warm coastal marine waters around the world, and species with toxic venom are generally found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, between Thailand and the Philippines and off the coast of northern Australia.

Jun 16, 2024 · Of the 50 or so species of box jellyfish, also called sea wasps, only a few have venom that can be lethal to humans. While box jellyfish are found in warm coastal waters around the world, the lethal varieties are found primarily in the Indo-Pacific region and northern Australia.

The sea wasp, also known as the box jellyfish, is infamous for its lethal sting and may be the most venomous organism alive today. Learn more about the sea wasp.

Box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off Northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific. They are pale blue and transparent in color and...

Oct 31, 2024 · The Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), is so poisonous that if one of its 6-foot-long (1.8-meter-long) tentacles touches you, it's possible you might die before you reach the shore.

The infamous sea jelly is large and transparent with a box-shaped bell and up to 60 tentacles in four clumps along the base of the bell. This species occupies the tropical Australian coastal waters from Western Australia through the Northern Territory to Queensland.

Dec 21, 2022 · The sea wasp, also known as Chironex fleckeri or box jellyfish, lives in Australian and the south-eastern Asian waters. There are almost 200 known species of jellyfish swimming in our planet’s seas.

An American author named Mayer who was speaking about some of the stinging Cubomedusae found in the Caribbean waters of Central America coined the name Sea Wasp. In Australia it is more commonly known as the Box Jellyfish.