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Possible Wavelength Discrimination by Multibank Retinae in Deep-Sea Fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E.J. Denton  and
N.A. Locket
E.J. Denton
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB
N.A. Locket
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Adelaide, South Australia
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Experiments on intact retinae from the eyes of the deep-sea fish Diretmus argenteus show that the region of the retina that receives light from above and possesses very long rods has different photosensitive pigments from the region that receives light from below. In both of these regions the retina has several banks of rods. The optical densities of the photosensitive pigments in the retina at the peaks of absorption are almost the same (about one) in these two regions. However, the region of the retina with very long rods also contains a stable yellow pigment that absorbs heavily in the blue and near ultra-violet (optical density about three at the wavelength 390 nm). If, as seems certain, this stable pigment is largely in the long rods it will filter the light reaching the other layers of rods and act, for this region, as yellow lenses do for whole retinae in other fish. The lens of Diretmus was shown to be transparent in the visible and near ultra-violet.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 409 - 435
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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