Bioluminescence Studies
Research and Resources

By John E. Wampler

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602

Web Resources for Bioluminescence Studies:

The Bioluminescent Bay Web Site

The Bioluminescence Web Page at UCSB

A History of Luminescence from E. N Harvey

The Fish Facts Web Site

Sapelo Island Web Page

The Chemiluminescence Home Page

The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution site

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The following sites have photos of bioluminescent organisms:

The British Columbia Creature Page

the Ciencia e Technologia Site

Steven Haddock's pictures at The University of California, Santa Barbara site

The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution site and their Photogallery of Bioluminescent species

Dr. J. W. Hastings site at Harvard

Dr. Peter J. Herring's site at the Southampton Oceanography Centre

Mike Johnson's Zooplankton site

Frank Borges LLosa's pictures from Mosquito Bay, Puerto Rico

Paul H. Yancey's deep sea pages

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Pictures at these sites and other individual pictures of bioluminescent organisms are indexed below using the classification scheme of the UCSB site:

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Bacteria- colonies on a petri dish (Dr. Hasting's site)

Fungi:

mushrooms from Mt. Warning, Australia

brightly luminous mushroom cap (Dr. Hasting's site),

illuminated and self-luminous picture (Dr. Hasting's site),

the Jack-O-Lantern fungi (luminecent fruiting bodies)

Dinoflagellates (single-celled plants):

Dinoflagellates home page at UCSB

Pyrocysgtis luna, fluorescence microscope image white is source of bl, red is chlorophyll (Dr. Hasting's site)

Gonyaulax polyedra, Fluorescence microscope image of a night-phase cell on right, and a day cell on the left. Red is chlorophyll fluorescence, white is luciferin fluorescence (Dr. Hasting's site)

Pyrocystis fusiformis from the UCSB site,

Pictures from the Mosquito Bay in Puerto Rico

Rodiolarians (single cell organisms)- Tuscaridium cygneum

Cnidaria

Scyphozoa (Jellyfish):

Atolla vanhoeffeni

Hydrozoa (Hydroids and Hydromedusae):

Aequorea victoria

Obelia

Clytia noliformis

Anthozoa (Sea Pens and Sea Pansies):

Renilla reniformis

seapen

Ptilosarcus gurneyi

the White seapen, Virgularia sp.

the seawhip, Osteocella septentrionalis

Ctenophores (Comb Jellies)

Ocyropsis

Bathyctena, a deep water ctenophore

Bathocyroë ,

Beroa gracilis

Mnemiopsis leidyi

Beroe forskalii, diffraction from comb

Nemertean worms (1 species)

Mollusca

Quantula striata, the bioluminescent land snail

Chan Sow Yan's photo of Q. Striata

Limpet- Latia neritoides

Nudibranch- Phyllirrhoe

Clams - Pholas dactylus, from the Atlantic and Mediterainian

Squid- squid photocytes (Dr. Hasting's site)

Octopods- Callistoctopus arakawai of Japan

Annelid worms

Marine Polychaete worms- Chaetopterus pergamentaceus,

Sylid fireworm - Eunice viridis

Earthworms- Pontodrillus bermudensis, Diplocardia longa, D. longa bioluminescence, Octochaetus multiporus

Pycnogonids (sea spiders)

Crustaceans

Copepods

Ostracods- Cypridina hilgendorfii

Amphipods

Decapod shrimp- Systellaspis debilis

Euphausiids (krill)- The Antarctic euphausiid shrimp, Euphausia superba

Chaetognaths -A bioluminescent arrow-worm

Echinoderms

Sea stars

Brittle stars- Amphipholis squamata

Sea cucumbers

Hemichordate worms

Urochordates

Pyrosoma tuberculata

Tunicate (one)

Larvaceans

Chordates

Sharks (some)

Fish:

Diaphas, headlight fish (lower left) from Peter H. Yancey's site.

the plainfin midshipman, Porichthys notatus

Hatchet Fish from UCSB site

Hatchet Fish (see bottom of page).

Ramsey's Land: Deep-Sea Angler Fish

Viperfish, Chauliodus macouni from Peter H Yancey's site.

the Benttooth Bristlemouth, the most common vertebrate on the planet

Centipedes

Millipedes

a luminescent millipede from Indonesia

Insects

Fireflies

Firefly larva

Sexual selection in Fireflies

glowworms of Australia and New Zealand, Diptera

British glowworm, Lampyris noctiluca

another Lampyris noctiluca picture

other glowworm larva

Railroad worm luminescence

Railroad worms and closer view from Dr. Hasting's site