Dwellers of the sea and shore dwellersofseasho00crow Year: 1935 The Comb Jellies and Others 73 out a doubt, Is the display of phosphorescent light by the various animals of the sea and shore. Especially striking Is this phenomenon on a clear summer night before the rising of the moon. Here and there, among the pebbles and swarming over the swaying seaweeds, can be seen tiny points of bluish light; pale floating clusters of liquid fire are carried to the shore by the bolina; a phosphorescent comb jelly, (photograph taken in the water.) waves to break upon the sand with a brilliant sheen; e
Dwellers of the sea and shore dwellersofseasho00crow Year: 1935 The Comb Jellies and Others 73 out a doubt, Is the display of phosphorescent light by the various animals of the sea and shore. Especially striking Is this phenomenon on a clear summer night before the rising of the moon. Here and there, among the pebbles and swarming over the swaying seaweeds, can be seen tiny points of bluish light; pale floating clusters of liquid fire are carried to the shore by the bolina; a phosphorescent comb jelly, (photograph taken in the water.) waves to break upon the sand with a brilliant sheen; even as one walks, one's footsteps mark a softly shim- mering trail, in which the quivering glow lingers for a while, hesitates, and then dies out. These lights are variously ^ emitted by minute crustaceans, comb jellies and worms. But by rea- son of the larger volume of light given off by each individual, and on account of their enormous numbers.
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