WoRMS taxon details

Malo kingi Gershwin, 2007

567183  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:567183)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Medusozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Cubozoa (Class)
  6. Carybdeida (Order)
  7. Carukiidae (Family)
  8. Malo (Genus)
  9. Malo kingi (Species)
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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Collins, A.G. (2025). 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 2025-08-28
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2011-04-02 11:28:37Z
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Collins, Allen G.

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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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source 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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

From editor or global species database
Synonymy Straehler-Pohl 2014 suggests that Malo kingi is a junior synonym of Malo maxima. No genetic data included. [details]
    Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Malo kingi) 
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 19 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) 

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