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Noctiluca scintillans, a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. Bioluminescence is the production of light by living organisms. This list of bioluminescent organisms is organized by the environment, covering terrestrial, marine, and microorganisms.
The sea cucumber, like other bioluminescent animals, is able to emit light. It uses this effect as an alarm to expose its self and potential predators in times of an attack.
A deep-sea creature with a “long stalk on the head with bioluminescent tips” washed up on a California state park’s shore, officials said.
Bathydevius is the first nudibranch, or sea slug, known to live in the deep sea. The sea slug’s body is made up of a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail. It can glow with bioluminescence.
Deep-sea organisms generally inhabit bathypelagic (1,000–4,000 metres (3,281–13,123 ft) deep) and abyssopelagic (4,000–6,000 metres (13,123–19,685 ft) deep) zones. However, characteristics of deep-sea organisms, such as bioluminescence can be seen in the mesopelagic (200–1,000 metres (656–3,281 ft) deep) zone as well. The ...
The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater, [2] [3] that dwell in and around the sea. Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfish.
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 ...
Most deep-sea organisms have only a single visual pigment sensitive to the absorbance ranges of 470–490 nm. [14] This type of optical system is commonly found in the stomiidae family. However, three genera of dragonfish evolved the ability to produce both long-wave and short-wave bioluminescence. [15] In addition, deep-sea dragon fishes ...