Picasso triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Euteleostei » Neoteleostei » Acanthomorpha » Acanthopterygii » Percomorpha » Percomorpharia » Tetraodontiformes » Balistidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS528nm  528nm
Double cone MWS480nm  480nm
Rod480nm  480nm
SWS2b cone413nm  426nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Lime-Blue (double cones)
550nm - 509nm - 465nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Green-Indigo
503nm - 462nm - 423nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS2b cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Siebeck et al (2001) give a different ocular transmission than Cheney et al (2013). This entry uses the latter transmission curve.

Champ CM, Vorobyev M, Marshall NJ. (2016) Colour thresholds in a coral reef fish. R. Soc. open sci. 3: 160399. doi:10.1098/rsos.160399

Siebeck U.E., Marshall N.J. (1999) Ocular media transmission of coral reef fish - can coral reef fish see ultraviolet light? Vision Research 41 (2001) 133 - 149.

Champ C, Wallis G, Vorobyev M, Siebeck U, Marshall J (2014) Visual acuity in a species of coral reef fish: Rhinecanthus aculeatus. Brain Behav Evol. 83(1):31-42. doi:10.1159/000356977

Pignatelli V, Champ C, Marshall J, Vorobyev M (2010) Double cones are used for colour discrimination in the reef fish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus. Biol. Lett. 6:537-539. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.1010

Cheney KL, Newport C, McClure EC, Marshall NJ (2013) Colour vision and response bias in a coral reef fish. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 2967-2973. doi:10.1242/jeb.087932

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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