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Oncaea
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Oncaea

Oncaea is a genus of copepods. The genus contains bioluminescent species. Unlike other bioluminescent copepods, Oncaea have an internal (non-secreted) bioluminescence. Oncaea contains the following species:

A number of nomina dubia and species inquirendae have also been described in Oncaea:

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Oncaea clevei

speciesOncaea clevei

Oncaea venusta

speciesOncaea venusta

Oncaea media

speciesOncaea media

Oncaea mediterranea

speciesOncaea mediterranea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 329109.