Noctiluca scintillans - Wikipedia
Noctiluca scintillans is a marine species of dinoflagellate that can exist in a green or red form, depending on the pigmentation in its vacuoles. It can be found worldwide, but its geographical distribution varies depending on whether it is green or red.
Noctiluca | Definition, Facts, Classification, & Bioluminescence ...
Noctiluca, genus of marine dinoflagellate in the family Noctilucaceae, consisting of a single species, Noctiluca scintillans (or N. miliaris), one of the most commonly occurring bioluminescent organisms in coastal regions of the world.
Noctilucales - Wikipedia
Characteristics. These cells are very large, from 0.2 to 2 millimetres in diameter, and are filled with large buoyant vacuoles. Some may contain symbiotic green algae, but there are no chloroplasts. Instead, they feed on other plankton, and there is usually a special flagellum involved in ingestion.
EOS - Phytoplankton Encyclopedia Project
Noctiluca scintillans is an athecate heterotrophic dinoflagellate that feeds by phagotrophy (Kraberg et al. 2010). It reproduces sexually by formation of Close Isogamy
Tracking “Blue Tear” Blooms - NASA Earth Observatory
2019年10月6日 · Mariners have long noticed that the sea sometimes sparkles at night with an ethereal blue glow, especially after boats, waves, or even swimmers disturb the water. Single-celled organisms known as Noctiluca scintillans —a type of dinoflagellate phytoplankton —is responsible for the glow.
Noctiluca scintillans - microbewiki - Kenyon College
2011年10月31日 · Commonly called the "Sea Sparkle", "Sea Ghost", or "Fire of the Sea", Noctiluca scintillans is a non-parasitic free-living spherical microorganism that lives in marine environments (1). It exhibits bio-luminescence when agitated through a luciferin-luciferase system in its cytoplasm.
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S pectacular masses of Noctiluca scintillans (Latin for “sparkling night light”) has brought thousands of people to the shorelines of southern Tasmania, hoping to catch a glimpse of sea sparkles, or bioluminescence.
Ocean scientists work to forecast huge plankton blooms in
2018年3月26日 · Massive blooms of a marine organism called Noctiluca scintillans are currently threatening fisheries, tourism and desalination plants in the Arabian Sea. But scientists are developing forecasting...
Noctiluca scintillans - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Abstract. The dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans is often reported as a worldwide HAB species and caused severe financial losses to local aquaculture. In this review, we summarized the temporal and geographical distribution of its HABs in China, as …
Genus: Noctiluca | Dinoflagellate - UCSC
Genus: Noctiluca. | Dinoflagellate. Species: N. scintillans. Order: Noctiluciphyceae. Family: Noctilucaceae. Click on the illustration to enlarge. Description: Large unarmored, round or kidney shaped cells with a striated tentacle, one flagellum and a eukaryotic nucleus.