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Spectral composition of the light of the Lantern-fish, Myctophum punctatum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. A. C. Nicol
J. A. C. Nicol
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
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Relative spectral emission curves are available for the lights of many invertebrate animals, but none exists for fish. It seems likely that many bony fish use their photophores to signal to one another. Information about the spectral composition of fish luminescence is desirable to permit comparisons with the spectral sensitivities of fish eyes, to enable calculations to be made of luminous intensities, and to allow estimates to be made of the rate of attenuation of such lights in sea water. To further these ends, measurements were made of the spectral composition of the luminescence of the lantern-fish, Myctophum punctatum.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , February 1960 , pp. 27 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1960

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