Short-term cycling of skin colouration in the blackspotted rockskipper Entomacrodus striatus

Short-term cycling of skin colouration in the blackspotted rockskipper Entomacrodus striatus

Physiological colour change was investigated in the blackspotted rockskipper Entomacrodus striatus in Moorea, French Polynesia. Fish colour cycled with significant autocorrelation over the 30 min observation period and was not affected by observation temperature (27 and 31° C). Cycling depended most...

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Published in:Journal of fish biology Vol. 74; no. 7; pp. 1635 - 1641
Main Authors: Heflin, B., Young, L., Londraville, R. L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-05-2009
Subjects:
Animals
blenny
chromatophore
Chromatophores - physiology
crypsis
Entomacrodus striatus
Marine
Perciformes - physiology
Skin Pigmentation - physiology
Temperature
Time Factors
ISE, Pacific, French Polynesia, Society Is., Iles du Vent, Moorea
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Summary:Physiological colour change was investigated in the blackspotted rockskipper Entomacrodus striatus in Moorea, French Polynesia. Fish colour cycled with significant autocorrelation over the 30 min observation period and was not affected by observation temperature (27 and 31° C). Cycling depended most on dark and yellow pigments (as assayed by separation of colours via software), and therefore, it was hypothesized that short‐term cycling was driven by melanophores and xanthophores.
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ISSN:0022-1112
1095-8649
DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02200.x