striped snapping shrimp

Alpheus formosus

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Alpheidae

Sonoluminescence is luminescence induced by sound waves, such as in the emission of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. Sonoluminescence is sometimes considered a kind of mechanoluminescence. However, mechanoluminescence is typically defined as pertaining to solids, while sonoluminescence usually pertains to liquids.

Distribution

striped snapping shrimp — (c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 9United Kingdom · 2France · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionSonoluminescence, Wikipedia contributors

striped snapping shrimp

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