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Poisonous animals
 
Cnidarians (Jellyfish, Corals and Anemones)
 
Venomous fish
 
Scorpions
 
Spiders
 
Hymenopterans (Bees, Wasps and Ants)
 
Sea snakes
 
Terrestrial snakes
 
Miscellaneous animals
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Distribution of cnidarians (jellyfish, corals and anemones)

Cnidarians of medical importace

 

 

See also "Biomedical database: Cnidarians" for the distribution of other representatives.

 

 

 

 

Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Caribbean  Sea
Red  Sea
Mediterranean Sea
North Sea

Baltic

Sea

Black Sea

Portuguese man-of-war

     X
      X
     X
        X
     ?
          X
    (X)


Box jellyfish

 

     X1
     X
     X
     X1





 

Irukandji


     (X?)
      X2






Various other jellyfish

      X
      X
       X
        X
    X
         X
    X
  (X)
  (X)

 

1 Chiropsalmus quadrumanus in coastal areas of the western Atlantic, from North Carolina in the USA to the Caribbean and as far as Venezuela and Brazil in the south.

 

2 Western, Northern and Eastern Australian coastal waters. Probably a wide distribution in other areas of the tropical and suptropical Pacific. Cases of envenoming involving an "Irukandji-like" syndrome (caused by other carybdeid jellyfish species) also known from New Guinea, Hawaii, the Chinese coast, northern Japan and Vladivostok.