Visual Pigment of the Coelacanth

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 1972 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 239, pages 341-342 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: H J, Dartnall;

doi: 10.1038/239341a0

pmid: 12635232

Visual Pigment of the Coelacanth

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Abstract

DURING the Franco–British–American expedition to the Comoro Islands (January 1–March 28, 1972), two coelacanths were taken by native fishermen. This report of the visual pigment is based on measurements made on a quarter of one retina of the second fish, an immature female, 0.86 m long1.

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University of Sussex
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Keywords

Fishes, Animals, Female, Eye, Retinal Pigments

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