TAXONOMIC CORRELATES OF BIOLUMINESCENCE AMONG APPENDICULARIANS (UROCHORDATA: LARVACEA)
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- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 168 (1), 125-134
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1541178
Abstract
Larvaceans, common members of marine plankton communities, filter-feed with renewable, external, mucous houses. The houses of some species of Oikopleuridae produce endogenous bioluminescent flashes...This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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