Box Jelly fish is a special type of jelly fish. It is also known as Cubozoa. The scientific for this particular organism is Chironex fleckeri. These jelly fish look really beautiful and elegant but they are very lethal.They are extremely dangerous organisms. They have the ability to instantly stun or kill their prey.Their tentacles have certain toxins that manipulate the organisms nervous system and shut it down that does not allow the organism to breathe properly and as a result of which the organism chokes and dies. When the jelly fish inserts the toxin into the organism from its tentacles it can also paralyze the organism which makes it impossible for the organism to find a way to escape. The toxin released into the organism does not allow the muscles to contract or relax and without the relaxation and contraction of muscles the trapped organism cannot move(paralyzed).
These Box jelly fishes are also sea wasps and marine stingers. They are mostly found in the coastal waters of Northern Australia and throughout the Indo Pacific. They are pale blue and transparent in color. They get their name from their cube like shape of their bell. These jelly fishes can have up to fifteen tentacles that grow from each corner of the bell and each tentacle can reach about ten feet(3 metres) in length. Each tentacle has about five thousand stinging cells. These stinging cells are activated not by touch but by the presence of a chemical on the outer layer of its prey.
The venom of the box jelly fish is regarded as one of the most deadly in the world. The venom contains various toxins that attack the nervous system, skin cells and and heart. The venom is overwhelmingly powerful and strong that the organism can even...
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A defining feature of the lionfish which everyone sees are the “18 venomous spines on its dorsal fin and its pelvic and anal fins, which are used for defense” as described in FACE OFF WITH THE ENEMY: LIONFISH by Special To The Citizen. Which is a neurotoxin that results in intense pain and swelling of one’s body. Fernando Simal, a marine hunter at STINAPA National Marine Park, found out the potency of their venom after his first hunt when being stung by the lionfish he caug...
Scorpaenidae are mostly marine fish,very few found in fresh and brackish water. The family have around around 45 different genera and 380 different species. They are mostly found in the India Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Most of them lives in coral, tropical reefs and shallow waters, warmer areas. Not all of the family fish lives in the shallow water, small portion of the Scorpaenidae live deep as around 7,000 feet. Just like most of the coral reef fish are, Scorpaenidae have camouflaged body. Their characteristic reflects their name, they have sharp spine that can sting other organisms. Their spine are covered with venomous mucus just like how some other kind of fish are covered with the venomous mucus. Their body are covered with scales. Generally speaking, the Scorpaenidae family fish have different number of spines over the course of the body. Most known type pf Scorpaenidae are lionfish and scorpionfish. Lionfish have preorbital bone with 3 spines, spines and third below the diagonal; , big mouth, end position, oblique fissure. Mandible, vomer and jaw bone with villiform teeth group. Gill openings are wide, tetrabranchiate membranes without the isthmus, pre-opercular margin with 5 spines. Body are ctenoid scales, round head. On the side, there are about eight to nine dorsal fin, fin spines and rays of an anal fin; five to six pectoral fins, they are large, round, and are branched from the upper fin rays. There are about one to five pelvic, sub thoracic; caudal fin rounded truncate. Reef stonefish are extremely camouflaged, they could look exactly like a rock when hiding for predation. The spines of Scorpaenidae are hard and rough, some of their fin spines have poison, can cause serious pain, swells and fatal wounds. Some of ...
Basically in light of the fact that fish don't have a noteworthy method for communicating their pain, people have a tendency to overlook sensitivity for them. I can just envision a hook cutting into my lip and dragging me to a spot where I couldn't breath. That picture alone makes me realize how
Since this first encounter I have caught lots of these magnificent fish and as the years go by they seem to keep getting bigger and bigger. I have developed several baits and presentations that help me to catch these fish and I would like to share them with you.
The viperfish is found at depths of 500-2500 meters during the day in the part of
waters. They have venomous spines that can be very painful. The Red Lionfish can be aggressive
Earth’s environment is a complex construction with multiple parts that are all important to its success. Even creatures like jellyfish cannot be ignored when considering this delicate construction. As humans manipulate the environment, conditions are beginning to favor jellyfish and promote large population explosions. The effects of these large populations have a myriad of effects on humans and can be applied to ecological dynamics found in Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale.
There is a squid-like monster seen off the coasts of Norway that is a mile and a half in circumference named a Kraken. Legend says these creatures have the ability to squirt their blinding venom into the victim’s eye to cripple them. (...
The director continuously uses extreme close ups of the tiny, transparent organism in contrast to the victims being rescued to illustrate the image that coming in contact with this small animal can have such severe repercussions. They have also used footage of one of the Irukandji’s in captivity to more clearly show how skinny, long and transparent the tentacles are and that coming into contact with one of the tiny dots on one of its nearly invisible tentacles can lead to serious repercussions. The director also uses microscopic footage of a tentacle. This footage shows epic surges of matter exploding off of these small areas of the tentacle. This continues to embellish on the idea that the Irukandji jellyfish is a monster and a major threat to people in Southern
Viperfish has its own scientific name, Chauliodus Sloani. It lives in the darkest depth of the sea in the range between 250 to 5000 feet in the daytime and shallower depths at night, primarily in tropical and temperate waters. Viperfish only grows up to 60 centimetres . However, they possess extremely over-grown teeth which is very useful for hunting prey. This fierce creature has developed a specialize hunting technique that is perfect for deep ocean floor where there is no light. This fish generates its own light and uses it to attract prey through a process known as bioluminescence . Viperfish has several light-generating-organs along the side of its body called the photophores. They also have a long spine in their back with another photophores at the end of it. They mainly use the photophores to communicate with other members of the species such as when they are attracting mate .
Jellyfish are monsters of a sort. Jellyfish can distort things and shut down whole systems of government when they come in swarms. There are several types of jellyfish but one can have devastating effects. The everyday monster of the jellyfish causes fisheries to lose money, clogs power systems to shut down due to the masses of them and can shut down water filter systems. Jellyfish affect other fish and will kill people easily with their sharp points. Their tentacles are deadly weapons when jabbed with their points. The problem can be solved when the natural ecosystem is the same and jellyfish eats their prey.
A lionfish is a longstanding showstopper in a aquarius it's a flourishing invaded species in the united states southeast and caribbean coastal waters.This specie has a potential to harm reef ecosystem cause its a top predator . In the United State the Lionfish population is continuing to grow and increase its range. Did you know a lionfish have fleshy tentacles ? I don't think but they do above there eyes and below there mouth. A lionfish are found in mostly all warm marine water and tropics habitat. The Venom of a Redfish is delivered an a array up to 18 needlelike. It depend on their camouflage and lighting because they move fast. But , the Redfish is red and have white stripers , you shouldn't touch them cause they dangerous. A long time
As mentioned before, brevetoxins can cause human respiratory and digestive illness, and consumption of brevetoxin-contaminated fish and mollusks is associated with neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP). According to the data, people in Sarasota, Florida visited the hospital emergency department for digestive illnesses during red tide outbreaks increased by 40% in 2001 relative to in 2002 when there was no red tide bloom (Hoagland, et al., 2014). In addition, multiple substantial effects of brevetoxin immunotonicity are postulated by scientists, such as the inhibition of cathepsin active sites, apoptosis, the release of inflammatory mediators, cell cycle, and oxidative stress. Several effects listed before can have profound problems on human health such as apoptosis, cell cycle and oxidative stress can lead to cancer. The experimental results suggest that the apoptosis postulation is based on the in vitro assay that DNA damage was observed in human lymphocytes treated with brevetoxins and several apoptotic gene expressions were altered in brevetoxin exposed Jurkat cells. The oxidative stress will result in the depletion of glutathione in U-937 human monocyte cell line treated with PbTx-2. Also, DNA strands breakage and chromosome aberrations were observed under oxidative stress (Fleming et al.,
From the surface to its deepest depth the ocean is 11km deep, and with this distance comes a vast change in physiological feature of fish as they try to survive the changing conditions.
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