He can also produce a toxic venom which he can spit over distances of 500 feet or more.
C. fleckeri is the largest of the cubozoans (collectively called box jellyfish), many of which may carry similarly toxic venom.
It had plunged them into the man's thigh and squirted half a cupful of the most toxic venom in Africa into his bloodstream.
Some ants of the family Ponerinae have toxic venom and are of medical importance.
Death adders can inject on average 40-100 mg of highly toxic venom with a bite.
However, they have large fangs, and their glands produce a considerable quantity of toxic venom.
Their lethal toxic venom ensured that anything that ate them came off second best.
LD50's for most toxic venoms.
C. basilicus is known to produce large amounts of highly toxic venom, and large specimens should be regarded as very dangerous.
Smaller, northern species, such as V. berus, have only slightly less toxic venom, but inject very little.