Abstract: The production of living light- bioluminescence, is a widespread but very unevenly distributed phenomenon among living organisms. As presently known, some five terrestrial and 14 marine phyla and more than 700 genera are known to have luminous species (Herring, 1987; Herring & Widder, 2001). The morphological diversity of luminous organs, physiology and taxonomic occurrence of bioluminescence in fishes is higher than in any other group of organisms and confined exclusively to marine habitats. ; Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 1666 ; This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Suntsov, A. V., Widder, E. A., & Sutton, T. T. (2008). Bioluminescence. In R. N. Finn, & B. G. Kapoor (Eds.), Fish larval physiology (51-88). Enfield, NH: Science Publishers.
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