Silver-spotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Euteleostei » Neoteleostei » Acanthomorpha » Acanthopterygii » Percomorpha » Percomorpharia » Perciformes » Cottoidei » Cottales » Agonidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
DoubleP569nm  569nm
DoubleA521nm  521nm
Rod502nm  502nm
SWS2b cone435nm  435nm
SWS2a cone420nm  420nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
DoubleP
DoubleA
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Amber-Teal (double cones)
594nm - 548nm - 502nm
 
DoubleP DoubleA Photopic
Green-Indigo
539nm - 477nm - 426nm
 
DoubleP
DoubleA
SWS2b cone
SWS2a cone
Photopic
SWS2b cone-SWS2a cone
466nm - 433nm - 399nm
 
SWS2b cone SWS2a cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Britt L.L., Loew E.R., McFarland W.N. (2001) VISUAL PIGMENTS IN THE EARLY LIFE STAGES OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST MARINE FISHES Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 2581-2587 (2001)

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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