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ALTHOUGH bioluminescence is a common phenomenon among many marine Crustacea1,2, records of its occurrence among the Amphipoda are few. Of those records that exist, all the actual observations of light production (except perhaps that of Bowman on Parapronöe, as cited in ref. 2) are readily explicable as pathological infections of the individuals by luminous bacteria, as described in Giard's classical account of luminescence in Talitrus3. The only other evidence for luminescence in this subclass rests on the interpretation of certain anatomical structures in Scypholanceola4 and Streetsia nyctiphanes5 as light organs.
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HERRING, P. Luminescence in Marine Amphipods. Nature 214, 1260–1261 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141260a0
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