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  2. Aequorea victoria - Wikipedia

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    Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence.

  3. Bioluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Bioluminescence is the emission of light during a chemiluminescence reaction by living organisms. [1] Bioluminescence occurs in diverse organisms ranging from marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some fungi, microorganisms including some bioluminescent bacteria, dinoflagellates and terrestrial arthropods such as fireflies.

  4. Cephea cephea - Wikipedia

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    This species of jellyfish is known to live in the Pelagic zone of the ocean in the Indo-West Pacific, Eastern Atlantic and the Red Sea. They live and thrive in cold water and can be found as deep as over 3,000 feet below the surface. The species is bioluminescent. During the day it tends to remain in deeper waters, migrating to surface waters ...

  5. Atolla jellyfish - Wikipedia

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    Bioluminescence is the production of visible light by a living organism (Herring 2004). Bioluminescence is a common phenomenon in marine animals found in the deep sea. Atolla wyvillei has adapted a safety response to avoid predation. When Atolla wyvillei is attacked it produces an array of blue light flashes. The propagation rate of these ...

  6. Ctenophora - Wikipedia

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    a Beroe ovata, b unidentified cydippid, c "Tortugas red" cydippid, d Bathocyroe fosteri, e Mnemiopsis leidyi, and f Ocyropsis sp. [17]. Among animal phyla, the ctenophores are more complex than sponges, about as complex as cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, etc.), and less complex than bilaterians (which include almost all other animals).

  7. The same species washed up on the state park’s shore two years ago, officials said.

  8. Bizarre jellyfish-like creature discovered - AOL

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    Earlier this year, a team of researchers sent cameras down to the depths of the ocean. They likely didn't expect to see this creature swimming by. The Ocean Exploration Trust uploaded this video ...

  9. More jellyfish are appearing on Hilton Head beaches. Here’s ...

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    They are the most common kind of sea turtle to use the shores of Hilton Head Island as their nesting ground, according to hiltonheadisland.org. Aside from cannonball jellies, sea nettles can be ...