Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Marine copepod (crustacean, Pleuromamma sp.). Pleuromamma is genus of copepod from the family Metridini

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Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Marine copepod (crustacean, Pleuromamma sp.). Pleuromamma is genus of copepod from the family Metridinidae All species in the family can produce blue-green bioluminescence. The light is produced in glands whose position varies between genera in the family. Magnification when shortest axis printed at 25 millimetres.

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Photo credit: © DENNIS KUNKEL MICROSCOPY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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