Tiger wandering spider (Cupiennius salei)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Chelicerata » Arachnida » Araneae » Araneomorphae » Ctenidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Green520nm  520nm
Blue480nm  480nm
UV340nm  353nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
Blue
Green
  Photopic
Green-Blue
545nm - 503nm - 462nm
 
Green Blue Photopic
Green receptor - UV receptor
494nm - 398nm - 352nm
 
Blue
Green
UV Photopic

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Notes and References:

Walla P., Barth F.G., Eguchi E. (1996) Spectral Sensitivity of Single Photoreceptor Cells in the Eyes of the Ctenid Spicier Cupiennius salei Keys. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 13: 199-202

Fenk LM, Schmid A (2010) The orientation-dependent visual spatial cut-off frequency in a spider. The Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 3111-3117. doi:10.1242/jeb.041939

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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