30 of the deadliest animals in Australia

Thanks for this to australiangeographic.com.(So...I have been worried about a creature that comes in at number 13 on this list! There are a dozen more I should have been looking out for...and Fire Ants don't even get a mention!)This list was developed by the Australian Museum in Sydney. Museum staff rated animals out of 10 based on the threat they pose, combined with the likelihood of encountering one.Danger rating: 10/101. Box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri)Danger rating: 9/102. Honey bee (Apis mellifera)3. Irukandji (Carukia barnesi) JellyfishDanger rating: 8/104. Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)5. Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)6. Saltwater or estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)7. Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus)Danger rating: 7/108. Blue-ringed octopus (Genus Hapalochlaena)9. Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) 10.Common death adder (Acanthopis antarticus)11. Cone shells (Conus sp.) 12. Dugite or spotted brown snake (Pseudonaja affinis)13. Mulga snake or king brown snake (Pseudechis australis) 14. Red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus)15. Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) 16. Tiger snake (Notechis scutatus)17. Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)18. Yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus)Danger rating: 6/1019. Bluebottle (Physalia physalis) 20. Common lionfish (Pterois volitans)21. Collett’s snake (Pseudechis colletti)22. Highland copperhead (Austrelaps ramsayi)23. Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) 24. Redback spider (Lactodectus hasselti) 25. Reef stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) 26. Smooth toadfish (Tetractenos glaber)27. Blue-bellied black snake (Pseudechis guttatus)Danger rating: 5/1028. Australian paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus)29. Bull ant (Myrmercia pilosula) 30. Giant centipede (Ethmostigmus rubripes)