Bioluminescence On Earth.

[Thorinair]

Ok, I've been searching around the net about bioluminescence for some time and I found some great things...

Firstly, the list of all organisms that glow...

The list
Animals:

• certain arthropods
  • fireflies
  • glow worms
    • railroad worms
  • certain mycetophilid flies
  • certain centipedes
  • certain millipedes
• a terrestrial mollusc (a tropical land snail)
  • Quantula striata
• annelids

Fungi:

• Mushrooms
  • Jack O'Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius)
  • ghost fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis)
  • Honey mushroom
  • Panellus stipticus
  • several species of Mycena

Fish

• Cookie-cutter shark
• Marine hatchetfish
• Anglerfish
• Flashlight fish
• Pineconefish
• Porichthys
• Gulper eel
• Many rattails

Marine invertebrates

• many cnidarians
  • Sea pens
  • coral
  • Aequorea victoria, a jellyfish
• certain Ctenophores or "comb jellies"
• certain echinoderms (e.g. Ophiurida)
• certain crustaceans
  • ostracods
  • copepods
  • krill
• certain chaetognaths
• certain molluscs
  • certain clams, bivalves
  • certain nudibranchs, sea slugs
  • Octopus
    • Bolitaenidae
  • the order Teuthida
    • Colossal Squid
    • Mastigoteuthidae
    • Sepiolidae
    • Sparkling Enope Squid
    • Vampire squid

Microorganisms

• Dinoflagellates
• Vibrionaceae (e.g. Vibrio fischeri, Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio phosphoreum)
• Fungi species - A total of 71 species are bioluminescent including species of Armillaria, Omphalotus, Mycena, Gerronema, Pleurotus.

Now for some pictures/videos

Panellus Stipticus


^ This looks soooo beautiful ^ (press for higher resolution)

Then, a .gif of this mushroom: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...9_Animated.gif (NOTE: its HUGE file)




Dinoflagellate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN1Yxq8KMsw
(The plankton (Dinoflagellate) glows when people throw rocks in to the water.)

A photograph of Dinoflagellates





And, a nice article about using bioluminescence in everyday lives:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010401.html



I will post more stuff if I find any!