Tamoya
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Tamoyidae is a family of box jellyfish within class Cubozoa. It contains only one genus Tamoya.[1]
Species
- Tamoya gargantua Haeckel, 1880
- Tamoya haplonema F. Müller, 1859
- Tamoya ohboya Collins, Bentlage, Gillan, Lynn, Morandini, Marques, 2011
References
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tamoya Mueller, 1859". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
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The Tamoya ohboya is a rare jelly fish that has said to have only stung 3 men in the world. It was discovered in the waters of the Dutch Caribbean. It is different from its relatives found off Brazil and the south-eastern US by its dark brown to reddish-orange banded tentacles. Collected only three times, it has been observed 50 times in the Caribbean Basin, including St Lucia, St Vincent, Mexico and Honduras – 45 times off the western shore of Bonaire. Most sightings are sporadic and of solitary, fast-swimming individuals, making collections challenging This strikingly beautiful but venomous box jelly has had so many sightings since 2001 that it had a common name before being officially described in 2011 after the capture of a specimen in 2008.The sightings of this new species remind us of the opportunities for citizen scientists to participate in species exploration.