Terrestrial organisms

• Animals:
  • certain arthropods
    • fireflies
    • click beetles
    • glow worms
      • railroad worms
  • certain mycetophilid flies
  • certain centipedes such as Geophilus carpophagus
  • certain millipedes such as Motyxia
  • a terrestrial mollusc (a tropical land snail)
    • Quantula striata
    • annelids
• Fungi:
  • Mushrooms (see Foxfire)
    • Jack O'Lantern mushroom or Omphalotus olearius
    • ghost fungus or Omphalotus nidiformis
    • Honey mushroom
    • Panellus stipticus
    • several species of Mycena

Fish

• Anglerfish
• Cookie-cutter shark
• Flashlight fish
• Gulper eel
• Lanternfish
• Marine hatchetfish
• Midshipman fish
• Pineconefish
• Viperfish

Marine invertebrates

• many cnidarians
  • Sea pens
  • coral
  • Aequorea victoria, a jellyfish
• certain Ctenophores or "comb jellies"
• certain echinoderms e.g. Ophiurida
• certain crustaceans
  • ostracods
  • copepods
  • krill
• certain chaetognaths
• certain molluscs
  • certain clams, bivalves
  • certain nudibranchs, sea slugs
  • Octopus
    • Bolitaenidae
  • the order Teuthida
    • Colossal Squid
    • Mastigoteuthidae
    • Sepiolidae
    • Sparkling Enope Squid
    • Vampire squid

Microorganisms

• Dinoflagellates e.g. Noctiluca scintillans, Pyrodimium bahamense
• Vibrionaceae e.g. Vibrio fischeri, Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio phosphoreum
• Members of the marine bacterial family Shewanellaceae, Shewanella hanedai and Shewanella woodyi have also been shown to be bioluminescent
• Fungi – A total of 71 species are bioluminescent including species of Armillaria, Omphalotus, Mycena, Gerronema, Pleurotus.