ArticleScientific reports2013
A deepwater fish with 'lightsabers'--dorsal spine-associated luminescence in a counterilluminating lanternshark.
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- Optic-nerve-transmitted eyeshine, a new type of light emission from fish eyes.Frontiers in zoology · 2017Article
- The Flashlight Fish Anomalops katoptron Uses Bioluminescent Light to Detect Prey in the Dark.PloS one · 2017Article
- Molecular phylogeny of Squaliformes and first occurrence of bioluminescence in sharks.BMC evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- The presence of lateral photophores correlates with increased speciation in deep-sea bioluminescent sharks.Royal Society open science · 2015Article
- Iso-luminance counterillumination drove bioluminescent shark radiation.Scientific reports · 2014Article
- Computational visual ecology in the pelagic realm.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Photon hunting in the twilight zone: visual features of mesopelagic bioluminescent sharks.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
We report the discovery of light organs (photophores) adjacent to the dorsal defensive spines of a small deep-sea lanternshark (Etmopterus spinax). Using a visual modeling based on in vivo luminescence recordings we show that this unusual light display would be detectable by the shark's potential predators from several meters away. We also demonstrate that the luminescence from the spine-associated photophores (SAPs) can be seen through the mineralized spines, which are partially translucent. These results suggest that the SAPs function, either by mimicking the spines' shape or by shining through them, as a unique visual deterrent for predators. This conspicuous dorsal warning display is a surprising complement to the ventral luminous camouflage (counterillumination) of the shark.
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