How does a box jellyfish adapt to the great barrier reef?

Question

How does a box jellyfish adapt to the great barrier reef?

Answer 1

Any individual box jellyfish does not "adapt" to the great barrier reef. The box jellyfish, as a species, is however, already equipped with many adaptations which make it well suited to its life on the reef. Apart from the obvious long tentacles armed with nematocysts with extremely toxic and quick-acting poison, they have good eyesight:

"The box jellyfish is an active visual hunter of vertebrates. It has four sets of six eyes, some of which are image-forming with lenses and retinas, lying around the four facets of the bell (body) of the animal. Box jellyfish are also extremely active, with metabolic rates at least an order of magnitude greater than those of any other jellyfish we know of"

Have a look at

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/181_...

and

http://www.jcu.edu.au/interest/stingers/

Answer 2

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