Noctiluca marina ... /
praesidio ... Caroli Linnaei ... sistit Carolus Frid. Adler ...

Description

Main Author

Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778

Related Names

Adler, Carl Fredric, 1720-1761, respondent.
Adler, Carl Fredrik, respondent.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Upsaliæ : excudit L.M. Höjer, [1752]

Subjects

Luminescence
Phosphorescence > Phosphorescence / Early works to 1800.
Bioluminescence > Bioluminescence / Early works to 1800.
Noctiluca > Noctiluca / Early works to 1800.
Phosphorescence
Bioluminescence
Noctiluca
Academic dissertations > Academic dissertations / Sweden > Academic dissertations / Sweden / Uppsala > Academic dissertations / Sweden / Uppsala / 18th cent.
Early works

Summary

Defended {9} June 1752 by Carl Fredric Adler (1720-1761). A report, with historical background, on the cause of phosphorescent luminescence of the sea, called "mareld" in Swedish, as seen in the wake of ships when in tropical waters, on wave crests in severe storms or in western coastal areas in evening from August to September. Reported to be due to the minute flagellate worm, Nereis noctiluca, for which genus 11 species were described herein. Identification of the organism was reported to have been made first in 1749.

Note

Also published in Linnés̕ Amoenitates academicae, v. 3, ed. 1, 1756; ed. 2, 1764; ed. 3, 1787, p. 202-210. cf. Hulth, Bibl. Linn. (1907) p. 86.
Library of Congress collection: Dissertationes academicae (Linné) no. 39

Physical Description

2 p. ℓ., 8 p. : plate ; 20 cm.

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