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The Tapetum in Scyliorhinus Canicula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. A. C. Nicol
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

Tapeta were examined of light- and dark-adapted dogfish. Scyliorhinus canicula. The tapetum in the eye of this fish is fixed; pigment processes in the tapetum do not move when a fish is changed from dark to light and vice versa. A black ventral field and a bright dorsal fundus are always present.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1961

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