The Colours of Octopus: Using Spectral Data to Measure Octopus Camouflage.

Luis Nahmad-Rohen, Yusuf H Qureshi, Misha Vorobyev

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Article in Vision (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luis Nahmad-RohenLeigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Leigh, Auckland 0985, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-9065-2226

Yusuf H QureshiLeigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Leigh, Auckland 0985, New Zealand.

Misha VorobyevOptometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland 1023, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-7615-5816

University of Auckland · NZ

Funding

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CVU no. 516833Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant 19-UOA-104-3718652

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

No animal can so effectively camouflage in such a wide range of environments as the octopus. Thanks to their highly malleable skin, they are capable of adapting their body patterns to the brightness and texture of their immediate environment, and they often seemingly match the colour of background objects. However, octopuses are colour-blind as their eyes have only one type of visual pigment. Therefore, chromatophores in their skin are likely to respond to changes in brightness, not chromaticity. To determine whether octopuses actually match background colours, we used a SpectraScan

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PMID36278671

DOI10.3390/vision6040059

PMCPMC9590006

OpenAlexW4296998663

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