Tags: Crustacean.

Metridinidae is a family of copepods comprising three genera – Gaussia Metridia and Pleuromamma. It has also been referred to as Metridiidae but following a petition to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature that name has been restricted to the family Metridiidae Carlgren 1893 based on the anthozoan genus Metridium. All species in the family can produce blue-green bioluminescence; the light is produced in glands whose position varies between genera.

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