Effect of Background Brightness on the Visual Contrast Threshold of the Japanese Common Squid

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 534-537

  Siriraksophon, Somboon ^a,b   Morinaga, Tsutomu ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b SE Asian Fish Development Center   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Background brightness; Contrast threshold; Jet hit response; Squid; Todarodes pacificus

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; TODARODES PACIFICUS;

EID: 0008487071     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.534     Document Type: Article

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