Visual Spectral Sensitivity of the Bioluminescent Deep-Sea Mysid, Gnathophausia ingens

Authors

Tamara M. Frank, University of California - Santa BarbaraFollow
James F. Case, University of California - Santa Barbara

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Biological Bulletin

ISSN

0006-3185

Publication Date

10-1988

Abstract

The spectral sensitivity of the deep-sea mysid, Gnathophausia ingens (Family Lophogastridae), was measured by electroretinography on intact specimens. High sensitivity to orange light was found. This was an unexpected result for a species whose adult members are never found above 400 m. Results of chromatic adaptation and silent substitution experiments were not compatible with either a one pigment or dual pigment visual system, making this one of the more unusual visual systems ever described.

DOI

10.2307/1541568

Volume

175

Issue

2

First Page

274

Last Page

283

NSUWorks Citation

Tamara M. Frank and James F. Case. 1988. Visual Spectral Sensitivity of the Bioluminescent Deep-Sea Mysid, Gnathophausia ingens .Biological Bulletin , (2) : 274 -283. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/464.