Hawaiian domino (Dascyllus albisella)

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 LWS510nm  510nm
Rod490nm  490nm
Double cone MWS465nm  465nm
SWS2 cone376nm  384nm
SWS1 cone359nm  373nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Green-Blue (double cones)
531nm - 491nm - 450nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Aqua-UVA
480nm - 421nm - 377nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS1 cone
SWS2 cone
Photopic
Violet-UV
408nm - 385nm - 363nm
 
SWS2 cone SWS1 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Losey, G. S., McFarland, W. N., Loew, E. R., 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

McFarland, W. N. & Loew, E. R. Ultraviolet visual pigments in marine fishes of the family pomacentridae. Vision Research, Volume 34, Issue 11, 1994, pp. 1393-1396. ISSN 0042-6989. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(94)90138-4

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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