Dark mantis shrimp (Gonodactylus curacaoensis)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
row2prox520nm465nm520nm540nm
row2dist494nm455nm500nm517nm
Periphery G511nm511nm
rows5&6511nm336nm350nm511nm
row4prox467nm570nm640nm467nm
row4dist435nm550nm605nm435nm
row1prox434nm336nm350nm434nm
row1dist400nm336nm350nm400nm
row1UV383nm335nm382nm
Periphery UV383nm302nm315nm382nm
rows5&6UV383nm385nm400nm382nm
row2UV325nm336nm350nm356nm
row4UV325nm301nm320nm334nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
Periphery G   Photopic
Green-UV
511nm - 434nm - 384nm
 
Periphery G Periphery UV Photopic
Winner-Take-All hues row4UV: 240°
row2UV: 218°
row1UV: 187°
row1dist: 156°
row1prox: 125°
row4dist: 93°
row4prox: 62°
row2dist: 31°
row2prox: 0°
 

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Notes and References:

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 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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