White-spotted boxfish (Ostracion meleagris)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
DoubleP520nm  520nm
Rh2 cone497nm  497nm
Rod495nm  495nm
DoubleA479nm  479nm
SWS2b cone471nm  471nm
SWS2a cone416nm  426nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Rh2 cone
DoubleP
DoubleA
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Double-Single cones
570nm - 539nm - 505nm
 
DoubleP
DoubleA
Rh2 cone Photopic
Yellow-Blue (double cones)
545nm - 505nm - 462nm
 
DoubleP DoubleA Photopic
Green-Indigo
518nm - 470nm - 425nm
 
Rh2 cone
DoubleP
DoubleA
SWS2b cone
SWS2a cone
Photopic
SWS2b cone-SWS2a cone
488nm - 455nm - 421nm
 
SWS2b cone SWS2a cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

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

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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