Jellyfish Research Paper
There are more than 2,000 different types of jellyfish. Approximately 70 can hurt people with the box jellyfish being the most dangerous. Scientists believe that there could be as many as 300,000 different species of jellyfish yet to be discovered” (Lehnardt). The box jellyfish is one of the most well know jellyfish, it also happens to be the deadliest.
The most deadly jellyfish is named the Australian box jellyfish (as seen in the picture). “Box jellyfish, named for their body shape, have tentacles covered in biological booby traps known as nematocysts - tiny darts loaded with poison.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. This includes the Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), considered the most venomous marine animal. Chironex fleckeri is the largest of the box …show more content…
“It has bell disks from 0.5 mm to a few mm in diameter. It reproduces asexually by splitting in half. Another contender for the smallest jellyfish is the extremely toxic Australian Irukandji, which is only the size of a fingernail” (Lehnardt). These jellyfish are only found in the deepest depths of the ocean and are very difficult to see without a magnifying glass, hand lens or, microscope. There is still one remaning question, what are jellyfish and what do they eat?
“Jellyfish are a type of plankton, meaning they are not strong swimmers and at the mercy of currents. When two currents meet, large concentrations of jellyfish, known as blooms, can form. When jellyfish blooms form, they can eat almost everything in the water. This can cause problems for commercial fisheries because the jellyfish will leaving nothing for the other fish in the same size category to eat” (jellywatch.org). Well that answers what jellyfish are but what do they eat and do they have
The most deadly jellyfish is named the Australian box jellyfish (as seen in the picture). “Box jellyfish, named for their body shape, have tentacles covered in biological booby traps known as nematocysts - tiny darts loaded with poison.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. This includes the Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), considered the most venomous marine animal. Chironex fleckeri is the largest of the box …show more content…
“It has bell disks from 0.5 mm to a few mm in diameter. It reproduces asexually by splitting in half. Another contender for the smallest jellyfish is the extremely toxic Australian Irukandji, which is only the size of a fingernail” (Lehnardt). These jellyfish are only found in the deepest depths of the ocean and are very difficult to see without a magnifying glass, hand lens or, microscope. There is still one remaning question, what are jellyfish and what do they eat?
“Jellyfish are a type of plankton, meaning they are not strong swimmers and at the mercy of currents. When two currents meet, large concentrations of jellyfish, known as blooms, can form. When jellyfish blooms form, they can eat almost everything in the water. This can cause problems for commercial fisheries because the jellyfish will leaving nothing for the other fish in the same size category to eat” (jellywatch.org). Well that answers what jellyfish are but what do they eat and do they have