Irukandji jellyfish
The Irukandji jellyfish is a tiny box jellyfish with a sting that can cause a serious illness called Irukandji syndrome. It lives in the open water near Australia, and it is hard to spot because it is so small.1

Maziviro ayo
- The bell is square-shaped and very small, about 12 mm high and 30 mm across.1
- It has four long tentacles, one from each corner of the bell.1
- The tentacles range from 5 to 50 cm long.1
- Its small size means it often goes unseen in open water.1
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: The common name Irukandji jellyfish is also used for other Irukandji jellyfish, such as Malo kingi. The name alone does not tell them apart.1
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This jellyfish is extremely venomous. Its venom comes from stinging cells called nematocysts in its tentacles and bell, and it changes as the jellyfish matures. A sting can cause Irukandji syndrome, with muscle aches, back pain, nausea, headaches, chest and stomach pains, sweating, high blood pressure and difficulty breathing.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.Irukandji syndrome can be severe, and the symptoms are described in detail in medical accounts. Most reported incidents have been in Australia during the warm summer season. Because the jellyfish is so small, people often do not see it before they are stung.1
Kana ikabaya
- In hospital, patients are given intravenous morphine, hydromorphone or fentanyl for pain. Pethidine is avoided because of its toxic metabolite norpethidine.1
- Buda mumvura ubvise matentacle ose (nemagirovhosi kana nejira).
- Kune jellyfish yebhokisi yekunzvimbo dzinopisa: dira vhiniga pakabayiwa kwemasekondi 30 zvishoma, shevedza rubatsiro ugare wakagadzirira kuita CPR. Kune bluebottle nedzimwe zhinji: suka nemvura yegungwa, wozoshandisa mvura inopisa kuderedza marwadzo.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
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inogona kushambira kureba kwedziva guru rekushambira (50 m) mumasekondi 36Irukandji jellyfish yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
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Jack Barnes of Cairns, Australia, discovered the species. During an exploration aimed at finding the cause of Irukandji syndrome, he allowed himself, a lifeguard and his 9-year-old son to be stung.1
Irukandji syndrome, which this jellyfish can cause, was first identified after a group of swimmers were stung in open water near North Queensland, Australia.1
Its venom changes in composition as the jellyfish grows, matching its change in prey from invertebrates to fish.1
Its life cycle alternates between a young form that attaches to a reef or rock and an adult form that swims freely in the water.1
This jellyfish is a type of box jellyfish, a group known for potent venom.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Carukia barnesi
- Boka
- Majellyfish nezvimwe zvinobaya zvegungwa
- Mhuri
- Carukiidae2
- Odha
- Carybdeida
- Makondinendi
- Gungwa reIndia, Gungwa rePacific, Gungwa reCoral, Gungwa reTimor neArafura, Makungwa makuru
- Vacheche
- Young jellyfish begin as a swimming planula larva, which settles on a reef or rock and grows into a polyp. The polyp later forms a colony that develops into an adult medusa.1
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Carukia barnesi (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Carukia barnesi (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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