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Jellyfish named after boy who discovered it

AN Australian schoolboy who discovered a new species of jellyfish in a Queensland canal has had the creature named in his honour by scientists.

Saxon Thomas was 9 when he spotted a small, box-like jellyfish while fishing with a friend in 2013. Thinking it unusual, he removed it from the water with a net, and with help of his father sent it to Queensland Museum.

“We looked at it and we confirmed it was a new species so we named a new species after him,” the museum’s Merrick Ekins said on Thursday. “We thought, ‘Why don’t we highlight the fact that a young, keen, observant lad saw it and recognized this as interesting and thought that he should contact the museum’.”

The jellyfish, named Chiropsella Saxoni, has a bell measuring about 3 to 4 centimeters with longer tentacles.


 

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