The Caribbean box jellyfish, also known as the Tripedalia cystophora, that is native to Jamaica, was found earlier this year for the first time in a canal on Australia’s Gold Coast .
The jellyfish as has also been found in other parts of the world such as Florida, the Philippines, Ecuador, Japan, Puerto Rico and Brazil.
The single female Caribbean box jellyfish was found on January 27 in a canal on the Gold Coast - about 17km from the ocean and approximately 1.5km from the nearest mangroves.
The find was only recently published online in the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
The jellyfish was observed in a canal, where a member of the public, mistook it for floating plastic rubbish.
Dr Merrick Ekins, of the Queensland Museum said the jellyfish was much smaller than the Australian species and was not lethal, but does carry a sharp sting.
He said the species was extinct in Jamaica because of over development, but it has colonised parts of Indonesia.
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