Noctiluca scintillans Occurred in the Gippsland Lakes as pinkish patchy blooms and produces chemi-luminescence at night. The species is a non-toxic dinoflagellate algae that feeds on other algae and fish eggs.The Noctiluca is a type of bioluminescent algae. These algae have an enzyme that when reacted with oxygen,causing a flash of light
Noctiluca scintillans, commonly known as the Sea Sparkle, and also published as Noctiluca miliaris, is a free-living non-parasitic marine-dwelling species of dinoflagellate that exhibits bioluminescence. The bioluminescent characteristic of N. scintillans is produced by a luciferin-luciferase system located in thousands of spherically shaped organelles, or “microsources”, located throughout the cytoplasm of this single-celled protist. Nonluminescent populations within the genus Noctiluca lack these microsources
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