[Cnidaria] Possible box jellyfish

[Bastian Bentlage]

I don't think it's Chironex, but Chiropsalmus quadrumanus, which occurs in the US and as far south as Brazil. It's hard to tell from the video but the overall look fits. One can find them in the rivers and creeks behind the barrier islands along the coast as well as in the Atlantic right at the coast. The only alternative I can think of is Chiropsella, which occurs in Australia.

Since the water they were caught in was 85 F rather than 29.5 C I'd suggest they were caught in North America. Alternatively, the person who caught the animal is a US expat living abroad...

Cheers,
Basti


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:23:22 +0000
> Von: ottuso at comcast.net
> An: Cnidaria Newsgroup <cnidaria at uci.edu>
> Betreff: Re: [Cnidaria] Possible box jellyfish

> I agree. These do appear to be cubozoans. ? chironex? It would be
> interesting to know where they were caught, ? near the mouth of a river.
> 
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: "Campbell, Alexandra Mandina" <cnidarian at neo.tamu.edu> 
> 
> > I found this video on Youtube and the person who captured the jellies
> and posted 
> > the video wants to know what type of jellies they are. They certainly
> look like 
> > Cubozoans. Unfortunately, there is not much information given about
> where the 
> > jellies wer captured, only that they were found in a river. 
> > Thank you for any information you may have. 
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G88hLea0tIc 
> > Alexandra Campbell 
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