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 Date

10-1988

Publication Title

Biological Bulletin

ISSN

0006-3185

Volume

175

Issue/No.

2

First Page

274

Last Page

283

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.

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.

DOI

10.2307/1541568