Bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Euteleostei » Neoteleostei » Acanthomorpha » Acanthopterygii » Percomorpha » Percomorpharia » Perciformes » Percoidei » Lutjanidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
DoubleP518nm  518nm
Rod500nm  500nm
DoubleA487nm  487nm
SWS2b cone430nm  435nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
DoubleP
DoubleA
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Yellow-Blue (double cones)
548nm - 508nm - 466nm
 
DoubleP DoubleA Photopic
Green-Indigo
511nm - 471nm - 430nm
 
DoubleP
DoubleA
SWS2b cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Bowmaker, J. K. (1990). Visual pigments of fishes. In The visual system of fish (pp. 81-107). Springer Netherlands.

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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