Armed Nylon Shrimp

Description: The deep-sea pandalid shrimp Heterocarpus ensifer and a photo of the same animal ‘vomiting’ light from glands located near its mouth. Photographed during the Bioluminescence and Vision 2015 expedition, as scientists sought to gain a better understanding of how and why organisms create their own light. Learn more about the Bioluminescence and Vision 2015 expedition: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/15biolum/welcome.html [Image source: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/15biolum/logs/july23/..]. Date: 7 December 2015, 06:33. Source: Shrimp Bioluminescence. Author: NOAA Ocean Explorer from USA.

Heterocarpus ensifer, 409 m Gulf of Mexico Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017. Identification from photograph by M. Wicksten.