Visual Pigments: Phylogeny and Ecology

Although John Lythgoe’s (1972) list of vertebrate visual pigments has been extremely useful and appreciated it was felt that a repertoire of visual pigments in fishes should also be given in this volume, for various reasons. First, it seemed that a volume of this sort will not be complete without such information. Secondly, considerable information quality and quantity wise has appeared since the material for Lythgoe’s list was gathered. Also, we wanted to give some information on the habitat of the various families and follow a more modern classification. The work was undertaken with the naive feeling that it will essentially be a reorganisation of Lythgoe’s list but experience proved it to be otherwise. Almost as many more species have been added and the integration of new information, reorganisation of the classification and, compilation of ecological information proved to be formidable and time consuming but worthwile tasks. We did not also set a limit as Lythgoe did. Any available information known or provided to us has been included. Thus, information obtained by the Carr-Price method (Ali and Heumann, 1970, 1972) and by microspectrophotometry of single cells (Harosi, 1973) as well as retinal patches (Muntz, 1973) has been integrated.

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