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Abundant box jellyfish, Chironex sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropidae), discovered at depths of over 50 m on western Australian coastal reefs

Box jellyfish cause human fatalities and have a life cycle and habit associated with shallow waters (<5 m) in mangrove creeks, coastal beaches, embayments. In north-western Australia, tow video and epibenthic sled surveys discovered large numbers (64 in a 1500 m tow or 0.05 m(−2)) of Chironex sp....

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Autores principales: Keesing, John K., Strzelecki, Joanna, Stowar, Marcus, Wakeford, Mary, Miller, Karen J., Gershwin, Lisa-Ann, Liu, Dongyan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4770284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26924604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22290