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Mediterranean box jellyfish

Carybdea marsupialis
Kubuhlungu njeMusa ukuchukumisaKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.
Iijelifishi nezinye izilwanyana zaselwandle ezihlabayo Ii-tentacle ezihlabayoSitya: Inyama
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Sihlala
Mediterranean Sea, the only box jellyfish found in that sea1
uLwandlekazi lweAtlantiki, uLwandle lweMeditera
Ekhaya
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
Ubude
3 cm (1,2 in)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)
Ukuqubha, uqikelelo nje
Sitya ntoni?
It eats invertebrates and even small fish. It catches prey with stinging cells, called nematocysts, on its tentacles, often in shallow waters.1
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Mediterranean box jellyfish
Mediterranean box jellyfish. Ifoto: Massimiliano DE MARTINO. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • 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

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: 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

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ii-tentacle ezihlabayo

Amawaka eeseli ezincinci ezihlabayo ziyadubula xa kukho into ezichukumisayo.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

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

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Ukuba siyahlaba

  • Phuma emanzini kwaye ususe naziphi na ii-tentacle (ngeiglavu okanye ngelaphu).
  • Kwiijelifishi zebhokisi (box jellyfish) zasetropiki: thela iviniga kwiindawo ezihlatyiweyo ubuncinane imizuzwana engama-30, biza uncedo kwaye ulungele ukwenza i-CPR. Kwii-bluebottle nakwezinye ezininzi: hlambulula ngamanzi olwandle, emva koko usebenzise amanzi ashushu ngenxa yeentlungu.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

  • Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
  • Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
  • Ukuba siyakuhlaba: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Mediterranean box jellyfish malunga ne-3 cm ubude (1,2 in)Isiqhobosho sephepha malunga ne-3 cm (1,2 in)Ifowuni ehlakaniphileyo malunga ne-15 cm (5,9 in)
malunga nobude besiqhobosho sephephasingaqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana eyi-36

U-Mediterranean box jellyfish mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

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

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Carybdea marsupialis
Iqela
Iijelifishi nezinye izilwanyana zaselwandle ezihlabayo
Usapho
Carybdeidae2
Ucwangco
Carybdeida
Amazwekazi
uLwandlekazi lweAtlantiki, uLwandle lweMeditera, Iilwandlekazi
Iintsana
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
Ingozi ebantwini
2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Carybdea marsupialis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Carybdea marsupialis (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
  3. Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.

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