Photeros

Photeros
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Myodocopida
Family: Cypridinidae
Subfamily: Cypridininae
Genus: Photeros
Cohen & Morin, 2010[1]

Photeros is a genus in the Cypridinidae. The genus contains bioluminescent species, and is one of the genera of bioluminescent ostracods which show stereotyped bioluminescent mating signals.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Enewton Cohen & Morin, 2010". WoRMS. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  2. ^ Cohen, Anne C.; Morin, James G. (2010). "Two New Bioluminescent Ostracode Genera, Enewton and Photeros (Myodocopida: Cypridinidae), with Three New Species from Jamaica". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 30: 1–55. doi:10.1651/08-3075.1.


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