Cannonball jellyfish
The cannonball jellyfish is a round, dome-shaped jellyfish that looks a bit like a cannonball. It lives in warm coastal waters on both sides of the Americas and in parts of Asia, and it is common in shallow water near the coast. It matters because it is one of the most common causes of minor jellyfish stings in US and Caribbean waters.1

Ndenge ya koyeba yango
- Dome-shaped bell that can reach 25 cm in diameter1
- The rim of the bell is often coloured with brown pigment1
- A cluster of oral arms under the body, extending out around the mouth1
- Some related species found in the Pacific and South Atlantic are pale to blue in colour1
Bakosanaka yango mbala mingi na: Several undescribed Stomolophus species in the Pacific and South Atlantic have pale to blue pigment. They are genetically different from the cannonball jellyfish of the North Atlantic, but they are often misidentified as that species.1
Makasi ya venin
Ba cellule ya mike nkoto na nkoto oyo etubaka ebetaka ntango eloko moko esimbi yango.
Venin na yango esalaka nini?
They release a mucus from their nematocysts (stinging cells) that contains a toxin when disturbed. The toxin can cause irregular heart rhythms and problems in the heart's conduction pathways, although this is not common in people. Contact with the nematocysts can be very painful and may cause redness and swelling, and the toxin is also harmful to the eyes.1
Likama na yango mpo na bato ezali boni?
Likama mpo na bato: Ya mokeLokola kotuba ya nzoi to moke koleka. Pene na likama te mpo na bato.Cannonball jellyfish are mostly harmless to people. Contact usually causes slight itching or minor eye irritation. They are among the most common causes of minor stings in US and Caribbean waters. Their toxin can cause heart problems in animals and humans, but this does not usually happen.1
Esalaka nini ntango ebangi?
When disturbed, they release a toxic mucus from their nematocysts, which harms small fish nearby and drives away most predators.1
Soki etubi
- Bima na mai mpe longola ba tentacule nyonso (na ba gants to na elamba).
- Mpo na ba méduse-boîte ya mai ya molunge: sopa vinaigre na esika etubami mpo na sekonde 30 to koleka, benga lisalisi mpe bongisama mpo na kosala RCP (massage ya motema). Mpo na ba bluebottle mpe mingi mosusu: sukola na mai ya mbu, sima na mai ya moto mpo na pasi.
Benga ntango nyonso nimero ya urgence liboso (112, 000, 911). Oyo ezali toli ya lisalisi ya liboso, ezali toli ya monganga te. Makambo ya moboko ya lisalisi ya liboso
Zala na libateli
- Ata mokolo moko te, simba, kanga to silikisa nyama ya zamba te, ata ya moke, mpe ata soki emonani lokola elali to ekufi.
- Tika yango esika. Soki okutani na moko, zala kimia, zonga sima malembe mpe tika ekende nzela na yango.
- Soki moko etubi yo: zala kimia, ningana te, benga nimero ya urgence na yo (112, 000, 911) to kende na lopitalo noki. Kanisa ndenge ezalaki, foto esalisaka.
Ezali koluka yo te. Esalelaka venin na yango mpo na kokanga bilei to komibatela, mpe elingaka mingi kobombama. Makambo mosusu mpo na komibatela
Wapi na mokili?
Monene na yango boni?
Molai na yango boni?
molai lokola ba brique ya masano 8 na molongoCannonball jellyfish azali monene boni soki tokokanisi na YO?
Kaka ba calcul na navigateur na yo. Eloko moko te ebombamaka to etindamaka esika moko.
Mbangu na yango boni?
Makambo ya solo
Juvenile portly spider crabs often live in the bell, eating some of the food the jellyfish catches. The jellyfish is not harmed because it can regenerate its tissue. One jellyfish has been seen with up to ten crabs in its bell.1
Jellyfish are commercially harvested as food. In Georgia, jellyball fishing is the state's third largest commercial fishery.1
The endangered leatherback sea turtle is one of their main predators.1
In 2012, El Golfo de Santa Clara in Mexico harvested 20,000 tons of these jellyfish from late April to early July.1
Solo to lokuta?
Lokuta: Cannonball jellyfish are dangerous to people.
Solo: They are mostly harmless to people. Contact usually causes only slight itching or minor eye irritation.1
Mpo na ba expert ya venin
- Kombo ya siansi
- Stomolophus meleagris
- Ebota
- Ba méduse & banyama ya mbu oyo etubaka
- Libota
- Stomolophidae2
- Molongo
- Rhizostomeae
- Bakontina
- Océan Atlantique, Mer des Caraïbes, Golfe du Mexique, Golfe de Californie, Ba océan
- Bana
- They can reproduce sexually or asexually. Sexual reproduction happens when a cannonball shoots sperm from its mouth and another cannonball catches it. The embryos develop in pouches on the oral arms, then the larvae settle on hard surfaces and grow into polyps.1
- Likama mpo na bato
- 1 / 5: Ya moke3
Esika makambo euti
- Cannonball jellyfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Stomolophus meleagris (iNaturalist): bankombo mpe classification.
- Venom Wiki: niveau ya likama, monene ya momesano mpe kokanisa ya mbangu ezali ya biso moko. Tala ndenge tolukaka yango: Ndenge tomekaka likama.
Likambo nyonso na lokasa oyo ezali na nimero oyo elakisi source na yango. Soki tosali libunga, limbisa biso, tozali bato oyo balingaka banyama, zulunale ya siansi te. Yebisa biso na [email protected] mpe tokobongisa yango.
Ba tentacule oyo etubaka
