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Among the changes is the increasingly frequent and widespread appearance of a dinoflagellate species called Noctiluca miliaris.
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They sound like Noctiluca, a single celled creature that glows in the dark.
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Its popular crab roll $25 includes Dungeness crabs from the California fishing vessel Noctiluca, and is served on a torpedo roll with organic butter and chives.
Fish 2011
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Its popular crab roll $25 includes Dungeness crabs from the California fishing vessel Noctiluca, and is served on a torpedo roll with organic butter and chives.
Fish 2011
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They sound like Noctiluca, a single celled creature that glows in the dark.
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A harmful algal bloom of the dinoflagellates Noctiluca scintillans, known as a red tide (note the scale in relation to the boat).
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With only that warning, in blinding concussion the Icy Noctiluca breaks, floods through the white tunnel.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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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.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Protozoa: (_a_) Some were very active, the Infusorians, like the slipper animalcule, the night-light (Noctiluca), which makes the seas phosphorescent at night, and the deadly Trypanosome, which causes
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Probably the Noctiluca is not rivalled in this respect even by miscroscopic unicellular algæ which compose the "red snow."
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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