Chocolate-dip chromis (Chromis hanui)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Euteleostei » Neoteleostei » Acanthomorpha » Acanthopterygii » Percomorpha » Carangimorpharia » Ovalentariae » Pomacentridae » Chrominae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS514nm  514nm
Rod477nm  477nm
Double cone MWS475nm  475nm
SWS1 cone355nm  365nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Green-Blue (double cones)
539nm - 498nm - 457nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Aqua-UVA
489nm - 411nm - 364nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS1 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Wilkins L., Marshall N.J., Johnsen S., Osorio D. (2016) Modelling colour constancy in fish: implications for vision and signalling in water. Journal of Experimental Biology 2016 219: 1884-1892; doi:10.1242/jeb.139147

Losey, G. S., McFarland, W. N., Loew, E. E., Zamzow, J. P., Nelson, P. A., Marshall, N. J. Visual Biology of Hawaiian Coral Reef Fishes. I. Ocular Transmission and Visual Pigments (2003) Copeia, 2003(3):433-454

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.

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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