INVERTEBASE
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Catalog #: 9895093
Taxon: Vargula tsujii Kornicker and Baker, 1977
Family: Cypridinidae
Determiner: Tim Fallon (2018-02-17T19:41:04)
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Collector: Tim Fallon      
Date: 2017-09-01
Verbatim Date: 2017/09/01 10:30 PM -0400
Locality: United States, California
33.444965  -118.484142 +-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.
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Record Id: 9499c018-fa12-4425-9766-08c2bd003249
Occurrence ID (GUID): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9895093
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