Philippine mantis shrimp (Gonodactylus aloha)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Malacostraca » Hoplocarida » Stomatopoda » Gonodactyloidea » Gonodactylidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
row3prox551nm570nm640nm634nm
row3dist531nm550nm605nm605nm
row2prox525nm465nm520nm542nm
row2dist513nm455nm500nm525nm
rows5&6517nm  517nm
Periphery G510nm  510nm
row4prox473nm200nm260nm473nm
row4dist443nm200nm260nm443nm
row1prox442nm335nm355nm442nm
row1dist400nm335nm355nm400nm
row1UV380nm335nm355nm381nm
rows5&6UV380nm  379nm
Periphery UV370nm  369nm
row4UV325nm335nm355nm360nm
row3UV325nm200nm260nm328nm
row2UV325nm200nm260nm328nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
Periphery G   Photopic
Green-UV
510nm - 423nm - 370nm
 
Periphery G Periphery UV Photopic
Winner-Take-All hues row2UV: 250°
row3UV: 230°
row4UV: 210°
row1UV: 180°
row1dist: 150°
row1prox: 120°
row4dist: 90°
row4prox: 60°
row2dist: 44°
row2prox: 30°
row3dist: 15°
row3prox: 0°
 

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Notes and References:

Thoen HH, How MJ, Chiou TH, Marshall J. (2014) A different form of color vision in mantis shrimp. Science 343(6169):411-3. doi:10.1126/science.1245824.

Bok, M.J., Porter, M.L., Cronin, T.W. (2015) Ultraviolet filters in stomatopod crustaceans: diversity, ecology, and evolution J. Exp. Biol. 218: 2055-2066; doi: 10.1242/jeb.122036

Bok, M.J., Porter, M.L., Place, A.R., Cronin, T.W. (2014) Biological Sunscreens Tune Polychromatic Ultraviolet Vision in Mantis Shrimp Current Biology 24, 1636-1642, July 21, 2014 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.071

Cronin, T. W., Marshall, N. J., Caldwell, R. L. Visual pigment diversity in two genera of mantis shrimps implies rapid evolution (Crustacea; Stomatopoda) (1996) J. Comp. Physiol. A 179: 371-384

Marshall, J., Cronin, T. W., Kleinlogel, S. Stomatopod Eye Structure and Function: A Review (2007) Arthropod Structure & Development 36 420-448. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2007.01.006

Cronin, T. W., Bok, M. J., Marshall, N. J., Caldwell, R. L. Filtering and Polychromatic Vision in Mantis Shrimps: Themes in Visible and Ultraviolet Vision (2014) Trans. R. Soc. B 369: 20130032. doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0032

Zaidi, Q., Marshall, J., Thoen, H., Conway, B. R. (2014) Evolution of neural computations: Mantis shrimp and human color decoding. i-Perception (2014) volume 5, pages 492-496

Osorio D., Marshall N.J., Cronin T.W. (1997) Stomatopod Photoreceptor Spectral Tuning as an Adaptation for Colour Constancy in Water. Vision Res., 37(23), pp. 3299-3309, 1997

Marshall NJ, Land MF (1993) Some optical features of the eyes of stomatopods II. Ommatidial design, sensitivity and habitat J Comp Physiol A 173:583-594

Warrant E.J., Nilsson D.-E. (1998) Absorption of White Light in Photoreceptors. Vision Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 195-207. PII: S0042-6989(97)00151-X

Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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