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5. The Luminous Organs of Nyctiphanes norvegica, Sars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

J. T. Cunningham  and
Rupert Vallentin
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The fact that light was emitted in the dark by a Schizopodous shrimp was first noticed by J. Vaughan Thomson, who, in his Zoological Researches, published about 1820, describes a species which he observed to be luminous under the name Noctiluca. He mentions the presence of scattered spots of red pigment in the animal, but was quite unaware that the production of light was confined to certain definite organs enveloped by this pigment—was indeed unaware of the existence of the organs which form the subject of this paper.

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Proceedings 1886-87
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 14 , 1888 , pp. 351 - 356
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1888

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References

* “Ueber einige Schizopoden und niedere Malakostraken Messina's,” Zeits. f. Wiss. Zool., Bd. xiii.

* “Eyes of Molluscs and Arthropods,” Mitt, aus der Zool. Stat. zu Neapel, 1886.Google Scholar