Animals / Jellyfish

Australian box jellyfish

Chironex fleckeri · Chirodropidae

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.

Where the Australian box jellyfish lives

Recorded in Ashmore and Cartier Is. (Oceania).

Most records fall in Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

See the Australian box jellyfish’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Not evaluated (NE). Scientists haven’t checked yet how at risk it is, so this doesn’t mean it is safe or in danger. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 175 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.