noctiluca

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The blue glow that was emanating from the water along a seashore in Hong Kong was an algal bloom created by Noctiluca scintillans, and it is potentially toxic.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2014

Probably the Noctiluca is not rivalled in this respect even by miscroscopic unicellular alg� which compose the "red snow."

From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Holden, Edward Singleton

Noctiluca miliaris, acted upon by iodine solution, showing the protoplasm shrunk away from the structureless pellicle. a = entrance to atrium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Then in the salt water near the surface there are often myriads of minute Noctiluca whose wonderfully phosphorescent little bodies glow like coals of fire when the water is disturbed at night.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur

All three genera are pelagic and phosphorescent, this property being seated in the ectoplasm; Noctiluca miliaris is indeed the chief source of the phosphorescence of our summer seas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various