Silver Pike-characin (Ctenolucius sp.)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Otocephala » Ostariophysi » Characiformes

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS625nm  625nm
Double cone MWS585nm  585nm
Rod520nm  520nm
SWS2 cone460nm  461nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Deep Red-Green (double cones)
676nm - 616nm - 557nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Orange-Blue
604nm - 529nm - 463nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS2 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Lythgoe J.N., Partridge J.C. (1989) Visual Pigments and the Acquisition of Visual Information. J. exp. Biol. 146: 1-20

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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