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    Cypridinidae is a family of ostracods. About half of all known species are bioluminescent. Some use the light only for defence, others also for courtship...
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    ostracod or giant seed shrimp, is a genus of ostracod crustaceans in family Cypridinidae, and among the most well-known members of the class Ostracoda (together...
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    in Cypridinidae, and once in Halocyprididae. In bioluminescent Halocyprididae a green light is produced within carapace glands, and in Cypridinidae a blue...
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    naming the constituents of the luminescent system of ostracods in the family Cypridinidae". Luminescence. 26 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1002/bio.1178. PMID 19862683....
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  • Enewton is a genus in the family Cypridinidae. The genus contains bioluminescent species, and in particular is one of the Caribbean genera of bioluminescent...
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  • Photeros is a genus in the Cypridinidae. The genus contains bioluminescent species, and is one of the genera of bioluminescent ostracods which show stereotyped...
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    ; Bennett, S.M. & Parker, A.R. (Mar 1997). "Sheina orri (Myodocopa: Cypridinidae), an ostracod parasitic on the gills of the epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium...
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  • Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Ostracoda Order: Myodocopida Family: Cypridinidae Genus: Vargula Species: V. tsujii Binomial name Vargula tsujii Kornicker...
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  • is a species of ostracod crustacean or "seed shrimp" in the family Cypridinidae. It is found in deep waters off the east coast of Australia. Azygocypridina...
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  • Maristella is a genus of ostracods belonging to the Myodocopida (Cypridinidae). The genus belongs to a diverse clade of Caribbean bioluminescent ostracods...
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  • bioluminescent system, unlike the cypridinid luciferin based system found in the Cypridinidae. The following species are recognised in the genus Conchoecia: Conchoecia...
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    Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Ostracoda Order: Myodocopida Family: Cypridinidae Subfamily: Cypridininae Genus: †Eocypridina Kesling & Ploch, 1960 Type...
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    Vargula is a genus in the Cypridinidae. The genus contains bioluminescent species. Vargula hilgendorfii (formerly Cypridina hilgendorfii), native to Japan...
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  • Azygocypridina is a genus of ostracods in the family Cypridinidae, which appears to be "the least derived living ostracod", having remained largely unchanged...
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    Hemicytheridae) was named in his honor. Neue Cypridiniden, 1891 - New Cypridinidae. Die Ostracoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte...
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    the constituents of the luminescent system of ostracods in the family Cypridinidae". Luminescence. 26 (1). Wiley: 1–4. doi:10.1002/bio.1282. ISSN 1522-7235...
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    Permian strata of Kanss: III. Bairdiidae (concluded), Cytherellidae, Cypridinidae, Entomoconchidae, Cytheridae, and Cypridae. Journal of Paleontology 9(2):132-166...
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  • In August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 6086 Vulnerable species, subspecies and varieties, stocks and sub-populations in the...
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