noctiluca

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Citizen scientists have tracked the UK’s one firefly, the common glow-worm, Lampyris noctiluca, since the 1970s.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

He was frequently found among the gaudy noctiluca of New York club life—the likes of Kenny Scharf, Ann Magnuson, John Sex, and Madonna.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2019

And that Lampyris noctiluca and Phosphaenus hemipterus, though commonly known as glow worms, are in fact beetles.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010

How does the jellyfish called ctenophore and the tiny, multitudinous noctiluca flash in the sea?

From Time Magazine Archive

It is spontaneous, for example, in the Pelagia phosphorea, but not in the allied Pelagia noctiluca, a very common form in the Mediterranean.

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