Black bream (juvenile) (Acanthopagrus butcheri)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS570nm  570nm
Double cone MWS555nm  555nm
Rh2 cone535nm  535nm
Rod481nm  481nm
SWS2a cone475nm  475nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Rh2 cone
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Red-Green (double cones)
612nm - 567nm - 522nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Double-Single cones
598nm - 554nm - 509nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
Rh2 cone Photopic
Lime-Blue
562nm - 514nm - 466nm
 
Rh2 cone
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS2a cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Shand, J., Davies, W. L., Thomas, N., Balmer, L., Cowing, J. A., Pointer, M., Carvalho, L. S., Trezise, A. E. O., Collin, S. P., Beazley, L. D., Hunt, D. M. The influence of ontogeny and light environment on the expression of visual pigment opsins in the retina of the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri (2008) J. Exp. Biol. 211, 1495-1503

Shand, J., Archer, M.A., Collin, S.P. (1999) Ontogenetic Changes in the Retinal Photoreceptor Mosaic in a Fish, the Black Bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri Journal or Comparative Neurology 412:203-217 (1999)

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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