Swimming behaviour can maintain localised jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri: Cubozoa) populations

2018 ◽  
Vol 591 ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Schlaefer ◽  
E Wolanski ◽  
MJ Kingsford
Keyword(s):  
Swimming Behaviour ◽  
Chironex Fleckeri

Swimming, feeding, circulation and vision in the Australian box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri (Cnidaria:Cubozoa)

1995 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 985 ◽  
Author(s):  
WM Hamner ◽  
MS Jones ◽  
PP Hamner
Keyword(s):  
Swimming Behaviour ◽  
Box Jellyfish ◽  
Green Turtles ◽  
Food Particles ◽  
Chironex Fleckeri ◽  
Natural Predation ◽  
Peristaltic Contractions ◽  
First Time ◽  
Prey Items

Juvenile Chironex fleckeri medusae were maintained in aquaria for several months. One individual was raised over a nine-month period to subadult condition for the first time. The medusae did not feed naturally in most aquaria but they accepted and digested prey items placed by hand onto the manubrium. Medusae maintained in planktonkreisels, however, extended tentacles and captured and ingested live Acetes, large prawns and fish by subumbrellar flexing of the pedalia. Digestion of prey was rapid and food particles were circulated directionally through functional canals and lacunae primarily by contractions of the bell but also by peristaltic contractions of interradial gastrovascular tissues. In the laboratory, medusae visually reacted to dark objects by swimming away from them. Swimming behaviour of medusae in the sea and natural predation by green turtles (Chelonia rnydas) on C. fleckeri are described.

Management of a major box jellyfish ( Chironex fleckeri ) sting: Lessons from the first minutes and hours

1992 ◽  
Vol 156 (9) ◽  
pp. 655-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher E Beadnell ◽  
Timothy A Rider ◽  
John A Williamson ◽  
Peter J Fenner
Keyword(s):  
Box Jellyfish ◽  
Chironex Fleckeri

The swimming behaviour of Brachionus calyciflorus (rotifer) under toxic stress

Chemosphere ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (14) ◽  
pp. 3247-3260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Charoy ◽  
Colin R. Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Brachionus Calyciflorus ◽  
Swimming Behaviour ◽  
Toxic Stress

Comparison of the statolith structures of Chironex fleckeri (Cnidaria, Cubozoa) and Periphylla periphylla (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa): a phylogenetic approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 158 (5) ◽  
pp. 1149-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Sötje ◽  
F. Neues ◽  
M. Epple ◽  
W. Ludwig ◽  
A. Rack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chironex Fleckeri

Chromatographic properties of the hemolysin from the cnidarian Chironex fleckeri

Toxicon ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.D. Crone ◽  
T.E.B. Keen
Keyword(s):  
Chironex Fleckeri
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