Sling-jaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS560nm  560nm
Double cone MWS552nm  552nm
Rh2 cone521nm  527nm
Rod486nm  513nm
SWS2 cone447nm  464nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Rh2 cone
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Orange-Green (double cones)
608nm - 568nm - 525nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Double-Single cones
591nm - 552nm - 516nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
Rh2 cone Photopic
Green-Blue
549nm - 512nm - 464nm
 
Rh2 cone
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS2 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Phillips G., Carleton K., Marshall N.J. (2015) Multiple Genetic Mechanisms Contribute to Visual Sensitivity Variation in the Labridae Mol. Biol. Evol. Advance Access publication October 12, 2015. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv213

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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