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| | Jellyfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Beyond initial first aid, antihistamines such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl) may be used to control skin irritation (pruritis). | | | They do not need a respiratory system since their skin is thin enough that oxygen can easily diffuse in and out of their bodies. | | | Medusae have a radially symmetric, umbrella-shaped body called a bell. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish
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| | Built for Blurs: Jellyfish have great eyes that can't focus: Science News Online, May 14, 2005 |
| | Eight of the eyes on a box jellyfish have surprisingly good lenses, yet the structure of the eyes keeps them from focusing sharply, according to a new optics study. | | | The eyes of box jellyfish, cephalopods such as the octopus, and vertebrates seem to have arisen independently. | | | However, he and his colleagues propose that the box jellyfish are taking an approach to seeing that's very different from ours. |
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http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050514/fob2.asp
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| | The jellyfish's retinas are placed behind the point at which the image is focused, meaning that they probably see a blur. | | | Nilsson and his team wonder if the jellyfish's finely tuned visual system makes up, to some extent, for their lack of such cognitive complexity. | | | Unlike other species that drift along and eat whatever their tentacles ensnare, box jellyfish behave more like a fish, swimming towards interesting objects and skirting obstacles. |
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http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050509/pf/050509-7_pf.html
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| | Pharyngula::Jellyfish eyes |
| | Jellyfish are notoriously difficult to keep in captivity so I doubt that any systematic experiments have been done. | | | Of course, when you want to measure irradiance (light intensity, i.e., day or night, shade etc.) as opposed to radiance (what you need to see the sharp edges of objects) you WANT the light to be diffuse, thus you want the lens to project off-kilter. | | | This is an article about anatomy, physiology, and optics, but again that wonderful integrating theory of evolution is an important part of the biology. |
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http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/jellyfish_eyes
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| | The Honolulu Advertiser Island Life |
| | The "classic box jellyfish sting in Hawaii causes immediate, sometimes severe, pain and a burning sensation lasting 10 minutes to eight hours," he wrote. | | | i biochemist Angel Yanagihara, the man-of-war’s are tiny and don’t take hold in human tissue — in fact, they might not penetrate the skin at all — but the box jellyfish has large, flaky spines that act as hooks, embedding themselves in the skin as the nematocyst fires. | | | Craig Thomas agreed: "In my clinical practice, my sense is that box stings are worse." |
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2001/Feb/01/21islandlife12.html
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| | Oceanlink marine sciences education and fun |
| | Jellyfish have the medusoid body form, with a bell-shaped body and tentacles hanging down from the edge of the bell. | | | The jellyfish do not seem to seek out prey, they simply catch whatever food runs into them as they swim in the water. | | | You haven't given us very much to to on, but we think that the animal that you're thinking of might be a box jellyfish. |
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http://oceanlink.island.net/ask/cnidaria.html
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| | Jellyfish |
| | However, Jellyfish are also used for good things like scientific research and medicine. | | | As a matter of fact, each of those coins is an individual baby Jellyfish of the Medusa type. | | | However, the embryo does not develop directly into a baby jellyfish, but becomes a tiny, flattened creature called a Planula. |
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http://danenet.wicip.org/mmsd-it/jellyfish.html
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| | Science News for Kids: Snapshot: A Jellyfish's Blurry View |
| | They've done enough work, though, to realize that box jellyfish see in a way that's very different from the way we do. | | | For certain types of jellyfish, the view would be decidedly fuzzy. | | | A variety of eyes may do for them what our own two eyes (plus brain) do to process images for us.—E. |
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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20050518/Note2.asp
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| | MJA: Fenner & Williamson, Worldwide deaths and severe envenomation from jellyfish stings |
| | Introduction - Distribution of jellyfish and reported envenomations - Sting seasons - Reflections on treatment - Applying vinegar - Removing adherent tentacles - The role of steroid therapy - Chironex fleckeri antivenom - Conclusions - Acknowledgments - References - Authors' details | | | Journalists are welcome to write news stories based on what they read here, but should acknowledge their source as "an article published on the Internet by The Medical Journal of Australia ". | | | Chironex antivenom has been shown to be of little benefit in the "irukandji" syndrome (it neither relieves the pain of envenomation nor reduces any other systemic problem), |
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http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/dec2/fenner/fenner.html
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| | Excerpts: "All Stings Considered . . ." - Part 1 of 3, Marine Injury and Wound Care |
| | In one U.S. fatality from the box jellyfish, Chiropsalmus quadrumanus, rescuers placed meat tenderizer almost immediately on the affected arm. | | | One is to prevent firing of any undischarged nematocysts remaining on the skin, thus preventing the injury from getting worse. | | | Because of this, even harmful therapies can appear to work. |
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http://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/alsting1.html
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| | eMJA: Do box jellyfish sleep at night? |
| | 2 During these periods of “inactivity”, the jellyfish lie motionless on the sea floor, with no bell pulsation occurring and with tentacles completely relaxed and in contact with the sea floor (Box 3). | | | It seems that these jellyfish show marked diurnal behaviour. | | | After many failed attempts to attach transmitters, we finally struck upon a simple but effective method. |
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http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/181_11_061204/sey10757_fm.html
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| | eMedicine - Jellyfish Sting : Article by Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM |
| | For Box Jellyfish, after treatment with vinegar or alcohol, use the pressure-immobilization technique. | | | Medicine is a constantly changing science and not all therapies are clearly established. | | | Jellyfish that are harmful to humans are distributed throughout the world. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/wild/topic33.htm
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| | Lifeguards spot 900 box jellyfish off Waikiki, Ala Moana - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper |
| | People stung by box jellyfish should flush the affected area with copious amounts of vinegar, apply heat pads and, if the pain persists, seek medical attention. | | | Lifeguards will assess beach conditions for the next several days and post warnings if the jellyfish are spotted. | | | The third-largest box jellyfish influx of the year hit O'ahu yesterday, lifeguards said. |
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Jun/16/ln/ln15a.html
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| | Also, it is helpful to keep the tentacle removed from the skin, if possible, for identification of the jellyfish, should that become medically necessary. | | | Teach your children what jellyfish look like and warn them not to touch them under any circumstances (even the harmless ones). | | | As you are aware, jellyfish stings can produce a variety of unpleasant or dangerous effects. |
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http://www.drhull.com/EncyMaster/J/jellyfish.html
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| | AIMS ProjectNET - Dangerous Marine Animals - Seawasp (Box Jellyfish) |
| | The Box Jellyfish uses its tentacles to kill its prey. | | | As death occurred sometimes within 2 to 3 minutes, researchers began to search for another culprit. | | | Box Jellyfish are pale blue and transparent and are difficult to see, even in clear ocean waters they are almost invisible, and for years it wasn't known what was actually causing such excruciating pain often followed by death. |
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http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/project-net/dma/pages/seawasp-01.html
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| | Healthy Island Resorts: Jellyfish (stingers) |
| | Stings are excruciatingly painful, appearing as red whip-like welts on the skin. | | | The Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit has also conducting new research challenging the use of pressure immobilisation technique in the treatment of serious stinger attacks. | | | Although these stings may be painful, they rarely cause life-threatening symptoms. |
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http://www.health.qld.gov.au/HealthyIslandResorts/topic/stingers.htm
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| | Isle jellyfish always arrive on schedule |
| | Our airplanes may not be on time around here, but our jellyfish are. | | | Meet them on the tarmac with tiny leis." | | | There is some good news about our box jellyfish: No one has died from a sting here. |
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http://www.susanscott.net/OceanWatch2000/nov27-00.html
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| | eMedicine - Coelenterate and Jellyfish Envenomations : Article by Jeffrey Tucker, MD |
| | Ingestion of jellyfish has resulted in abdominal pain, cramping, and generalized urticaria. | | | Sea bather's eruption is an intensely pruritic maculopapular eruption that develops on skin that has been covered by swimwear. | | | Systemic reactions can develop with local cutaneous findings, including weakness, headache, nausea, vomiting, muscle spasm, fever, pallor, respiratory distress, and paresthesias. |
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| | RedOrbit - Science - Box Jellyfish Has 360-Degree Vision |
| | Swedish researcher Dan-E Nilsson and colleagues found that the jellyfish, known for its cube-shaped head, has a cluster of eyes at each corner, making 24 in all. | | | RedOrbit - Science - Box Jellyfish Has 360-Degree Vision | | | PARIS (AFP) -- The box jellyfish, a denizen of tropical waters, has one of the most sophisticated optical systems in the marine world, with 24 eyes to give itself all-round vision even though it lacks a brain to handle what they see, scientists have found. |
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| | Jellyfish: A Dangerous Ocean Organism of Hawaii |
| | Jellyfish don't have brains - because their bodies are organized differently from ours. | | | The term, jellyfish, is also often used in referring to certain other cnidarians that have a medusoid (saucer- or bell-shaped) body form, such as hydromedusae, the siphonophores (including even the | | | Jellyfish are very common in all water bodies. |
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News |
| | Nine-year-old Cherie McMeekin, who was visiting with her family from New Zealand, writhed in pain 15 minutes after being stung by a box jellyfish on her right arm. | | | ambulance where he was treated for box jellyfish stings. | | | Paramedic Patty Dukes said three people were taken by ambulance to the hospital yesterday, but the cases were not critical except for severe pain. |
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http://starbulletin.com/2001/06/16/news/story3.html
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| | Drug Information: Antivenin, Box Jellyfish (Systemic) (Print Version) |
| | Older adults—Many medicines have not been studied specifically in older people. | | | The dose of box jellyfish antivenin will be different for different patients. | | | Approximately 7 to 14 days after you stop receiving box jellyfish antivenin, you may develop symptoms of serum sickness. |
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| | News in Science - Box jellyfish take a siesta - 24/08/2005 |
| | Gordon says researchers don't know much about the animals' movements. | | | News in Science - Box jellyfish take a siesta - 24/08/2005 | | | As part of a three-year study that could help to manage the country's northern coastline, the university's Tropical Australian Stinger Research Centre has been tracking the movements of box jellyfish using ultrasound tags, for 24 hours at a time. |
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| | Box jellyfish aka Sea wasp |
| | The pain can remain for weeks if not treated and often leaves scar. | | | The Cube like shape is what has given these jellyfish their name Box Jellyfish. | | | This means that you could touch a Box jellyfish (sea wasp) without being stung if your skin didn’t release chemicals. |
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| | Box jellyfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The eyes occur in clusters on the four sides of the cube-like body. | | | If stung, bathe the affected area with liberal amounts of vinegar and immediately seek medical attention. | | | ; most often, these fatal envenomations are perpetrated by the largest species of box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri, owing to its high concentration of nematocysts, though at least two deaths in Australia have been attributed to the thumbnail-sized irukandji jellyfish (Carukia barnesi). |
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| | News in Science - Box jellyfish may be threat all year round - 10/12/2002 |
| | Researchers declare war on box jellyfish, News in Science 24 May 1999 | | | News in Science - Box jellyfish may be threat all year round - 10/12/2002 | | | "These jellyfish generally cause only mild pain and itching, but if several were to surround a child in the water, they could lead to a major envenoming," he wrote. |
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| | Jellyfish |
| | Given the complexity of the jellyfish’s anatomy and hunting techniques, it’s hard to imagine how ‘developmental’ species could have survived while a non-jellyfish was evolving into a ‘modern’ jellyfish. | | | Both the box jellyfish and the much smaller Irukandji (2 cm, 0.8 in) have box-shaped bodies. The difference lies in the fact the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) only has stinging cells on its tentacles, while the Irukandji (Carukia barnesi) also has stinging cells on its body. | | | The potency of this toxin varies among jellyfish, causing reactions in humans ranging from mild rashes to death. Some, like the sea nettle, are simply an annoyance to those who are stung, while others, like the box jellyfish (see A ‘God of love’ created a killer jellyfish? |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Box Jellyfish |
| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Box Jellyfish | | | Jellyfish, common name for any of the invertebrate animals making up two classes of the cnidarian (coelenterate) phylum. | | | Common box is native to Europe and parts of Asia. |
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| | Box Jellyfish |
| | Unless treated immediately, a sting from a box jellyfish is lethal. | | | Sidebar: From 1883, when the first reported death by box jellyfish was reported in Australia, through January, 2000, 68% of individuals stung by box jellyfish died from their stings. | | | The box jellyfish are usually transparent and may be a very pale blue in color. |
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http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/reference/box_jellyfish.asp
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| | Sea Wasp - Box Jelly - Marine Stinger |
| | The sting from a box jelly is said to be excruciatingly painful. | | | They're triggered chemically, by contacting the surface of human skin or the scaly skin of a fish. | | | Find out what the deadliest creature is, or the most ferocious! |
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| | CSL Antivenom Handbook - Box Jellyfish Antivenom |
| | CSL Box Jellyfish Antivenom should be given as soon as possible if there is evidence of life threatening envenoming, such as collapse or cardiac dysfunction /arrest (3 vials recommended). | | | This explains the very rapid development of severe systemic envenoming in major box jellyfish stings. | | | The immunising species is the box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri. |
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| | Jellyfish Stings |
| | Jellyfish are aquatic animals that can cause a "sting" when they come into direct contact with humans or other animals. | | | In most cases, however, the poisons only cause injury to the part of skin that comes into direct contact with the tentacles. | | | As a rule, their stings are considerably less toxic than the hydrozoans and are usually limited to eruptions of the skin where contact took place. |
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| | Cubozoa |
| | Until recently, most cubozoans were grouped in with the scyphozoans, or jellyfish. | | | But because of their unique box shape medusae, they were recently reclassified into their own order. | | | They move much like other jellyfish, making use of propulsion. |
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| | Level-Zero Animality: Box Jellyfish |
| | Their tentacles and bodies in general are really fragile, and they don't want to risk getting torn by some stupid douche that got caught in their tentacles by dumb luck. | | | Contrary to what the above picture may lead you to believe, box jellies can't tear your legs off at the hip if they catch you in their oozing wrath. | | | 05-22-2005 - SHOH - Level-Zero Animality: Box Jellyfish |
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| | Box Jelly Fish, dangers on the great barrier reef |
| | Where antivenin is unavailable, pressure-immobilisation may be used on limbs after inactivation of stinging cells, while the patient is being transported to the nearest medical centre. | | | You have virtually no chance of surviving the venomous sting, unless treated immediately. | | | The box jellyfish seem to move towards the shore in calm waters when tide is rising and gather near the mouths of rivers, estuaries and creeks following the rain. |
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http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/jellyfish.htm
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| | Box jellyfish |
| | Chironex is an almost clear, box-shaped jellyfish, quite agile, and very difficult to see in the water, with many tentacles trailing from the four corners of its "bell". | | | Box jelly fish stings are accompanied by immediate agonizing pain. | | | Box jellyfish are often numerous after rain in the vicinity of creek outlets and are usually absent when the seas are rough. |
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| | Box Jellyfish |
| | The Jellyfish has extreme toxins present on its tentacles, which when in contact with a human, can stop cardio-respiratory functions in as little as three minutes. | | | This deadly species of jellyfish is related to another deadly jellyfish, the irukandji jellyfish. | | | This jellyfish is responsible for more deaths in Australian than Snakes, Sharks and Salt Water Crocodiles. |
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| | HawaiiThreads.com - Box jellyfish/Portuguese man-of-war |
| | It was a Waikiki lifeguard, as I recall, who figured out their monthly pattern. | | | I don't remember anything like this has happened on Kauai when I was growing up in the 1970's. | | | Box jellies don't like bright sunlight, so the when they're here each month they're close to the beach nearest sunrise and sunset, and during midday hours they head to deeper water. |
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| | box jellyfish information page, City and County of Honolulu |
| | Box Jellyfish "Carybdea alata" cause the most "trouble" for humans in Hawai`i. | | | Box Jellyfish are very common in all water bodies and regularly swarm to Hawaii's South and West Shores 8 to 10 days after the full moon. | | | box jellyfish information page, City and County of Honolulu |
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| | New Scientist Multi-eyed jellyfish helps with Darwin's puzzle - News |
| | The key to the puzzle, he argued, was to find eyes of intermediate complexity in the animal kingdom that would demonstrate a possible path from simple to complicated. | | | Now, a detailed study of the eyes of the box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) has thrown up one of these fascinating intermediate stages. | | | New Scientist Multi-eyed jellyfish helps with Darwin's puzzle - News |
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| | Ian McCormack - Heaven, Hell & the Box Jellyfish |
| | His testimony relates how he clung to life while getting to hospital, was declared clinically dead soon afterwards, and how during this time he had an encounter with God, which radically changed the direction of his life. | | | Ian was night diving off the island of Mauritius when he was stung multiple times by Box Jellyfish, which are among the most venomous creatures in the world. | | | Some ideas about how you can support Ian and Jane in their ministry |
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| | Cubozoa |
| | The cubozoans ("box jellyfishes") make up a small group of some 16 species with cube-like (square) bells They are distinguished from jellyfishes by the presence of four flattened, blade-like structures called pedalia from which the tentacles are suspended. | | | The box jellyfish, or sea wasp (Chironex) that swims in tropical waters off the coast of Australia with a width of approximately 25 cm can kill a person within minutes! | | | Note: This page is best viewed at a screen size of 800 X 600 pixels |
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