Image of brooding snake star
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The main image is a composite I made (overlay) of the brittle star bioluminescencing in the dark and the image of the brittle star hit with a flash. I had read that Amphipholis squamata had bioluminescence but hadn't seen any images from the California coast, so I brought home a few from the docks at Jack London and took lots of photos, some 30 minutes long at my highest ISO and got nothing. I did some more reading and 200mM KCl can cause a depolarization event leading to extreme bioluminescence so I dissolved a Emergen-C vitamin fizzy drink that has potassium carbonate in it in a minimal amount of water and added that to a few isolated brittle stars and BAM! Light show!
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Asterozoa
- Ophiuroidea (brittle stars and basket stars)
- Gnathophiurina
- Amphiuridae
- Amphipholis
- Amphipholis squamata (brooding snake star)
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- Damon Tighe
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