WoRMS taxon details
Malo kingi Gershwin, 2007
567183 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:567183)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Gershwin, L. 2007. Malo kingi: A new species of Irukandji jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida), possibly lethal to humans. Zootaxa 1659: 55–68., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1659.1.2 [details] Available for editors 
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Collins, A.G. (2026). World List of Cubozoa. Malo kingi Gershwin, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567183 on 2026-03-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Gershwin, L. 2007. Malo kingi: A new species of Irukandji jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida), possibly lethal to humans. Zootaxa 1659: 55–68., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1659.1.2 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Straehler-Pohl, I. (2014). Critical evaluation of characters for species identification in the cubomedusa genus Malo (Cnidaria, Cubozoa, Carybdeida, Carukiidae). <i>Plankton and Benthos Researchm</i>. 9(2): 83–98., available online at https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.9.83 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Synonymy Straehler-Pohl 2014 suggests that Malo kingi is a junior synonym of Malo maxima. No genetic data included. [details]
