Blue green damselfish (Chromis viridis)

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 LWS524nm  524nm
Rod499nm  499nm
Rh2 cone493nm  493nm
Double cone MWS478nm  478nm
SWS1 cone367nm  370nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Rh2 cone
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Double-Single cones
563nm - 528nm - 492nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
Rh2 cone Photopic
Green-Blue (double cones)
546nm - 504nm - 462nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Cyan-UVA
493nm - 420nm - 370nm
 
Rh2 cone
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS1 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Hawryshyn C.W., Moyer H.D., Allison W.T., Haimberger T.J., McFarland W.N. (2003) Multidimensional polarization sensitivity in damselfishes. J Comp Physiol A (2003) 189: 213–220. doi:10.1007/s00359-003-0392-4

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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