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| | Krill - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The family Bentheuphausiidae has only one species, Bentheuphausia amblyops, a bathypelagic krill living in deep waters below 1,000 m. |
 | | Except for the Bentheuphausia amblyops species, krill are bioluminescent animals, i.e. |
 | | The 57 species of the genera Bentheuphausia, Euphausia, Meganyctiphanes, Thysanoessa, and Thysanopoda are "broadcast spawners": the female eventually just releases the eggs into the water, where they float freely, disperse, and are on their own. |
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