Noctiluca

Noctiluca

Once upon a time, long, long, ago, there was a Celtic band called Noctiluca.  Now, you might say, Noctiluca is not a Celtic name.  No, it is not.  Unfortunately, no one in the band spoke Gaelic.  Noctiluca was the best they could come up with.  One of the band members was an oceanographer, and Noctiluca, meaning “night lights” in Latin, is the name of a genus of microscopic phytoplankton that produce bioluminescence at night.  Go figure, eh?

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