Goldfish (Carassius auratus)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS623nm415,554,523nm440,575,555nm639nm
Double cone MWS537nm415,554,523nm440,575,555nm571nm
Rod500nm  504nm
SWS2 cone447nm  450nm
SWS1 cone356nm  365nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Deep Red-Green (double cones)
661nm - 600nm - 530nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Yellow-UV
584nm - 484nm - 366nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS1 cone
SWS2 cone
Photopic
Blue-UV
456nm - 409nm - 364nm
 
SWS2 cone SWS1 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Hárosi, F. I. & MacNichol, E. F., Jr. Visual Pigments of Goldfish Cones Spectral Properties and Dichroism (1974) J. Gen. Physiol., 63 279-304

Schuster S., Machnik P., and Schulze W. (2011) Behavioral Assessment of the Visual Capabilities of Fish. In: Farrell A.P., (ed.), Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment, volume 1, pp. 143-149.

Ghim MM, Hodos W (2006) Spatial contrast sensitivity of birds. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 192(5):523-34. doi:10.1007/s00359-005-0090-5

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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