A jellyfish with a box-shaped swimming bell, living in warm seas.
立方水母，海蜇。亦见SEA WASP
Class Cubozoa (formerly order Cubomedusae)
See also sea wasp
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His major area of research is the seasonal variations in populations of box jellies, other cnidarians, and tropical insects.
The box jelly is kind of vicious - its long tentacles can easily wrap around your arms, face, or as Erika discovered, ankle, and make themselves impossible to remove without inflecting a vicious, incapacitating sting.
The product reportedly proved largely successful against the sting of the sea wasp, a type of box jelly.
To attach themselves, these box jellies have ‘sticky pads’.
As their common name implies, box jellies have a square shaped bell, to which four clumps of tentacles are attached.
For there is another family of box jelly fish, the Carybdeids, which scientists are only just beginning to fathom.
In general, box jellies are similar in form to the ‘true’ jellyfish, known as scyphozoans.
Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form, as evidenced by colonial siphonophores, massive medusae and corals, feathery hydroids, and box jellies with complex eyes.
A snake or poisonous spider bites in a single spot, but the box jelly's venom enters a victim's body over a very large area.