Metridinidae

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Metridinidae
File:Metridia gerlachei (10.3897-zookeys.969.52334) Figure 6.jpg
Metridia gerlachei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Calanoida
Family: Metridinidae
G. O. Sars, 1902
Genera
Synonyms [1]

Metridiidae Sars, 1902, non Carlgren, 1893

Metridinidae is a family of copepods, comprising three genera – Gaussia, Metridia and Pleuromamma.[1] It has also been referred to as "Metridiidae", but following a petition to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, that name has been restricted to the family Metridiidae Carlgren, 1893, based on the anthozoan genus Metridium.[2] All species in the family can produce blue-green bioluminescence; the light is produced in glands, whose position varies between genera.[3]

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