Hallaron in New Zealand the brightest light bulb in the world

A 1.80 meter long tube, which shines in the dark and has the depths of the New Zealand water, is the “largest luminescent vertebra in the world that can be fixed”, following a scientific study published in this school.

The investigation was confirmed by the first time that this tiburón carocho (Dalatias licha), as well as other species (Etmopterus lucifer and Etmopterus granulosus) that habit the lasciviousness of the neozelandes, and that it is known, its capable of producing a visible light through biochemical reactions.

Copies of these three species will be captured in the year 2020 during a Expedition of the Institute of Water Research and the Atmosphere (NIWA, in English) of New Zealand on the water that covers the Chatham Rise ocean, a vast area that extends 1,000 kilometers long into this oceanic country.

Jérôme Mallefet, author head of the study published in the scientific journal Fronteras de las Ciencias Marinas and who confirmed by first the existence of bioluminescent tiburons in New Zealand, explained that the captured copies produce a blue azure-green that glasses and looks darkly.

“They shine in the dark, no distillery producer”, details the Belgian scientist, who had the rare opportunity to study these characteristic specimens captured, in a communication from NIWA.

The tiburones, like other bioluminescent creatures, produce light to capture their presses, to reproduce when they are in a group, as well as to camouflage in ambient light with the end to protect their depressors, aggregated the communication.

Mallefer estimates that 57 of the 540 species known to tiburones can produce a bioluminescent light, the majority of them tamaño pequeño that inhabit the sea “crepuscular zone” of the sea, more than 200 meters of depth.

“The existence of luminous organisms in this zone (where there are three species of tibians) has become even more obscure as it produces light in the depths of an important paper in the structure of our planet’s huge ecosystem”, followed by its first experimental study.

The Mallefet investigation – together with his colleague Laurent Duchatelet, from the Catholic University of Lovaina, and Darren Stevens, from NIWA- could help extend more to the animals of the marine depths.

(With EFE information)

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