Taxon:
Vargula tsujii Kornicker and Baker, 1977
Family: Cypridinidae
Determiner: Tim Fallon (2018-02-17T19:41:04Z)
Collector:
Tim Fallon
Date: 2017-09-01
Verbatim Date: 2017/09/01 10:30 PM -0400
Locality:
United States, California
33.444964851 -118.4841424227 +-8m.
Occurrence Remarks:
"California Sea Firefly". Bioluminescent marine ostracod. The yellow tinted region to the bottom left of the black lateral eye is the "upper lip" gland which holds the luciferin substrate.
Establishment Means:
wild
Record Id: 4ccc2cbd-1ed9-4370-861b-f1c30301e5e2
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