photophores

The footage reveals the creatures emitting short flashes from light-producing organs, called photophores, on their arms.

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But their habit of hiding in the darkness by day and chasing darkness upward at night led to the development of extraordinarily large eyes and organs, known as photophores, capable of producing light-usually a weak blue, green, or yellowish light-the color and pattern of which signal the fish's species and gender, as well as information used in shoaling and other communications we don't understand.

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But their habit of hiding in the darkness by day and chasing darkness upward at night led to the development of extraordinarily large eyes and organs, known as photophores, capable of producing light-usually a weak blue, green, or yellowish light-the color and pattern of which signal the fish's species and gender, as well as information used in shoaling and other communications we don't understand.

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From MSNBC: "The photophores replace the down-welling light from the sun, which is absorbed by the shark's body," lead author Julien Claes explained to Discovery News.

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The footage reveals the creatures emitting short flashes from light-producing organs, called photophores, on their arms.

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Needle teeth so long the mouth can't close, an eel-like body studded with glowing photophores — fifteen, twenty centimeters long, tops.

Starfish 1999

Ballard appears at her side; her lens-covered eyes shine like photophores themselves.

Starfish 1999

At closer range it resolves into a string of smaller lights stretched in an arc, like photophores on the flank of some enormous fish.

Starfish 1999

Some fishes have their own photophores and some borrow their light in a mutualistic relationship with luminescent bacteria living on or within

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This light source can be generated in photophores, or light-emitting organs.

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