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Luciferidae

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Kingdom
  
Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Order
  
Decapoda

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Luciferidae httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

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Benthesicymidae, Sergestoidea, Lucifer, Ogyrididae, Nematocarcinidae

Luciferidae is a family of prawns. These prawns are small, characterised by bioluminescence and the loss or reduction of some appendages. They are predators of tiny planktonic crustceans for which their third pereiopod is adapted to capture by having thick, curved spines covering the limb. Until recently, the family was thought to be monotypic, but a 2016 cladistic analysis recognized a second genus apart from Lucifer, Belzebub.

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Luciferidae Wikipedia


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