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The sea-firefly is a small crustacean living in sediment.
Dried sea-firefly were sometimes used as a light source by the Japanese army during World War II to read maps in the dim light.
Vargula hilgendorfii, sometimes called the sea-firefly, one of three bioluminescent species known in Japan as umi-hotaru, is a species of ostracod crustacean.