''Cavernularia obesa'' is a species of marine cnidarians in the family Veretillidae. ''Cavernularia obesa'' is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the

Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...

area. It is a

bioluminescent Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some Fungus, fungi, microorganisms including ...

organism whose light-emitter is composed of 2-(p-hydroxyphenylacetamido)-3-benzyl-5-(p-hydroxyphenyl)pyrazine.The light-emitter in bioluminescence of the sea cactus Cavernularia obesa. Osamu Shimomura, Shoji Inoue and Toshio Goto, Chemistry Letters, Vol. 4 (1975) No. 3, pages 247-248

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Veretillidae Animals described in 1850 {{Octocorallia-stub