. Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage . Fig. 67.—Light organs of deep-sea animals: a, of a fish (Argyropelecus affinis); b, of a schizopod crustacean (Nematoscelis mantis); and c, of an octopod (Abraliopsis morisii). Light cells stippled; reflector lined, backed by a pigmented layer, black. A lens of varying structure in front of the light cells, made up of cells in a, homogeneous in b, fibrillous in c; b, with an afferent nerve, n. lac, lacunae, a after Brauer; b and c after Chun. What may be the function of this bi
. Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage . Fig. 67.—Light organs of deep-sea animals: a, of a fish (Argyropelecus affinis); b, of a schizopod crustacean (Nematoscelis mantis); and c, of an octopod (Abraliopsis morisii). Light cells stippled; reflector lined, backed by a pigmented layer, black. A lens of varying structure in front of the light cells, made up of cells in a, homogeneous in b, fibrillous in c; b, with an afferent nerve, n. lac, lacunae, a after Brauer; b and c after Chun. What may be the function of this bioluminescence? The attraction of prey must be considered as the primary possibility in the benthic
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