Caravela-portuguesa: diferenças entre revisões

A caravela-portuguesa é importante para a [[alimentação]] das [[tartaruga-marinha|tartarugas-marinhas]], que são imunes ao veneno.{{Carece de fontes|ciência=sim|data=abril de 2017|ci}}<ref>{{Citar web|titulo=Inside of a Sea Turtle's Mouth {{!}} Sea Turtle Exploration|url=https://seaturtleexploration.com/inside-of-a-sea-turtles-mouth/|obra=seaturtleexploration.com|acessodata=2020-01-09}}</ref>

 

As espécies ''Physalia physalis'' e ''Physalia utriculus'' são responsáveis por mais de 10000 queimaduras a humanos na Australia todo verão, particularmente na costa leste, mas também ocorrendo na costas sul e oeste australiana.<ref>Fenner, Peter J.; Williamson, John A. (December 1996). "Worldwide deaths and severe envenomation from jellyfish stings". Medical Journal of Australia. 165 (11–12): 658–661. ISSN 0025-729X. PMID 8985452. Retrieved 2009-09-04. In Australia, particularly on the east coast, up to 10 000 stings occur each summer from the bluebottle (Physalia spp.) alone, with others also from the "hair jellyfish" (Cyanea) and "blubber" (Catostylus). Common stingers in South Australia and Western Australia, include bluebottle, as well the four-tentacled cubozoa or box jellyfish, the "jimble" (Carybdea rastoni)</ref>