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Notes and References:

This is a red-fluorescent fish that hunts by vision, which probably possesses a LWS receptor that has not been experimentally detected. Additionally, all other Syngnathiformes for which data are available universally have a cone cell with λ_max around 520nm. Therefore, a 520nm cone cell is extrapolated here for Aulostomus.

Meadows M.G., Anthes N., Dangelmayer S., Alwany M.A., Gerlach T., Schulte G., Sprenger D., Theobald J., Michiels N.K. (2014) Red fluorescence increases with depth in reef fishes, supporting a visual function, not UV protection. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 281(1790). doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1211

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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