Purple land crab (Gecarcinus lateralis)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Malacostraca » Eumalacostraca » Decapoda » Brachyura

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Green receptor487nm  487nm
UV receptor440nm  443nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
 Green receptor   Photopic
Green receptor - UV receptor
507nm - 471nm - 433nm
  		Green receptor UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

Lall, A.B. & Cronin, T.W. (1987) Spectral Sensitivity of the Compound Eyes in the Purple Land Crab Gecarcinus lateralis (Freminville). Biological Bulletin Vol. 173, No. 2 (Oct., 1987), pp. 398-406

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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