Noctiluca marina ...
Contributors: Adler, Carl Fredrik, respondent.
Publisher: excudit L.M. Hȯjer
Published: 1752
Place of publication: Upsaliæ
Language: lat
Subjects: Noctiluca; Bioluminescence; Phosphorescence
Description: 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.
Notes: Diss.--Upsala (C.F. Adler, respondent)
Library of Congress collection:  Dissertationes academicae (Linné) no. 39
Also 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.