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.