Mimicry, colour forms and spectral sensitivity of the bluestriped fangblenny, Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1662, 2009, Pages 1565-1573

  Cheney, Karen L ^a   Skogh, Charlotta ^a   Hart, Nathan S ^a   Marshall, N Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour change; Colour vision; Coral reef fish; Facultative mimicry; Microspectrophotometry; Spectral reflectance

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ABSORBANCE; ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; COLOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEF; CRYPSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; MIMICRY; MODELING; PHOTORECEPTION; PIGMENT; REFLECTANCE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTRUM; THERMOREGULATION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CORAL REEF; FANGBLENNY; FISH; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION;

ABUDEFDUF ABDOMINALIS; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CTENOCHAETUS STRIGOSUS; PISCES; PLAGIOTREMUS RHINORHYNCHOS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CUES; PERCIFORMES; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE;

EID: 66349092541     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1819     Document Type: Article

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