Dataset

Abundant box jellyfish, Chironex sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropidae), discovered at depths of over 50 m on western Australian coastal reefs

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This dataset is the first record of a population of box jellyfish closely associated with the benthos at depths of 39-56 m. Chironex were not widespread, occurring only in 2 of 33 tow videos and 3 of 41 epibenthic sleds spread over 2000 km2. All Chironex filmed or captured were on low to medium relief reefs with rich filter feeder communities.

Citation
Keesing, J. K. et al. Abundant box jellyfish, Chironex sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropidae), discovered at depths of over 50 m on western Australian coastal reefs. Sci. Rep. 6, 22290; doi:10.1038/srep22290 (2016).
Published
June 07, 2022 at 05:40
First registration
July 23, 2020 at 13:06
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=wa_box_jellyfish
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=wa_box_jellyfish

Contacts

John Kessing
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

8
total submitted occurrences
8
accepted occurrences
1
taxa

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

No quality flags.

Measurement types

DNA derived data