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Mediterranean box jellyfish

Carybdea marsupialis
Samo boliNe dotikaj seBoli, a te ne bo resno poškodovala.
Meduze in morski ožigalkarji Ožigalne lovkeJe: Meso
Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

The Mediterranean box jellyfish is a small, see-through jellyfish with a box-shaped body about 3 cm across. It lives only in the Mediterranean Sea, where it is the only box jellyfish, and its sting can hurt people who swim in shallow water.1

Živi v
Mediterranean Sea, the only box jellyfish found in that sea1
Atlantski ocean, Sredozemsko morje
Domov
It lives in the upper few metres of the open sea and often moves through shallow water. Swimmers in the Mediterranean are the people most likely to meet it.1
Dolžina
3 cm (1,2 in)1
Največja hitrost
približno 5 km/h (3,1 mph)
Plavanje, groba ocena
Kaj je?
It eats invertebrates and even small fish. It catches prey with stinging cells, called nematocysts, on its tentacles, often in shallow waters.1
Zares!Fotografija: Mediterranean box jellyfish
Mediterranean box jellyfish. Fotografija: Massimiliano DE MARTINO. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Kako jo prepoznaš

  • Transparent, box-shaped bell about 3 cm across1
  • Four long tentacles at the lower corners of the bell, up to 30 cm long1
  • Red banding on the tentacles1
  • Small white or yellowish warts on the bell that carry stinging cells1
  • Often found in small groups1

Pogosto zamenjujejo z: Other box jellyfish of the genus Carybdea look similar, but they live in warm oceans elsewhere. The red banding on the tentacles is the feature that separates this species from them.1

Moč strupa

Ožigalne lovke

Na tisoče drobnih ožigalnih celic se sproži, ko se jih kaj dotakne.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

Its sting is venomous to humans, but some swimmers feel no painful sensation at all. In severe cases the symptoms spread through the body, with pain at the sting site and elsewhere, paresthesia (abnormal prickling or tingling sensations), hyperesthesia (over-sensitive skin) and skin lesions. These symptoms can take a few months to fully disappear.1

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

It is far less dangerous than some box jellyfish species from other parts of the world. It is still considered the second-most significant stinging jellyfish in the Mediterranean, after Pelagia noctiluca.1

Če piči

  • Pojdi iz vode in odstrani lovke (z rokavicami ali s krpo).
  • Pri tropskih kockastih meduzah: pike vsaj 30 sekund polivaj s kisom, pokliči pomoč in bodi pripravljen na oživljanje (TPO). Pri portugalskih ladjicah in večini drugih: izperi z morsko vodo, nato pa za bolečino uporabi vročo vodo.

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Ostani varen

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  • Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
  • Če te piči: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

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Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

Mediterranean box jellyfish približno 3 cm dolga (1,2 in)Sponka za papir približno 3 cm (1,2 in)Pametni telefon približno 15 cm (5,9 in)
približno tako dolga kot sponka za papirzmore preplavati dolžino velikega bazena (50 m) v 36 sekundah

Kakšne velikosti je Mediterranean box jellyfish v primerjavi s TABO?

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Kako hitra je?

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Dejstva

1

It has comparatively sophisticated eyes with lenses, which help it detect and avoid obstacles such as posts or a ship's rudder.1

2

After a free-swimming larva forms, it develops into a polyp that can reproduce by budding, and it can regenerate missing parts within 72 hours.1

3

It swims by making rapid contractions of its bell, moving between 3 and 6 metres per minute.1

4

Its tentacles can grow up to 30 cm long, many times the width of its box-shaped bell.1

5

It is the only box jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea.1

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime
Carybdea marsupialis
Skupina
Meduze in morski ožigalkarji
Družina
Carybdeidae2
Red
Carybdeida
Celine
Atlantski ocean, Sredozemsko morje, Oceani
Mladiči
The sexes are separate, and eggs and sperm (gametes) are released into the open water to fuse; the young develop into a free-swimming larva and then a small polyp stage before becoming jellyfish.1
Nevarnost za ljudi
2 / 5: Boleče3

Od kod so dejstva

  1. Carybdea marsupialis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Carybdea marsupialis (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
  3. Venom Wiki: stopnja nevarnosti, tipična velikost in ocena hitrosti so naše lastne. Poglej, kako jih določimo: Kako ocenjujemo nevarnost.

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