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  1. Cnidarians (Jellyfish, Corals and Anemones)
  2. Distribution

Distribution

This is relevant for all animals belonging to 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.