Family of crustaceans
Metridinidae is a family of copepods, comprising three genera – "Gaussia", "Metridia" and "Pleuromamma". 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". All species in the family can produce blue-green bioluminescence; the light is produced in glands, whose position varies between genera.
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