Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals 1988
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3714-3_20
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How to Be Unseen: An Essay in Obscurity

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“…In spite of this sophisticated sensory system, vision alone may not be sufficient for predator detection among fish in all situations. Other sensory modalities are favored at night (Cerri, 1983), in cloudy water or when a predator is cryptic (Saidel, 1988). Vision is also a relatively slow sensory system.…”
Section: The Role Of the Lateral Line System In Predator Evasionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In spite of this sophisticated sensory system, vision alone may not be sufficient for predator detection among fish in all situations. Other sensory modalities are favored at night (Cerri, 1983), in cloudy water or when a predator is cryptic (Saidel, 1988). Vision is also a relatively slow sensory system.…”
Section: The Role Of the Lateral Line System In Predator Evasionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We encourage the reader to view images of these animals via the internet. Saidel (1988) found that two North American species, the southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) and the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus), control the level of expression of a single pattern in response to varying backgrounds. Both species control the contrast in a pattern of dark and light, somewhat blurred, spots roughly 10mm across.…”
Section: Flatfish Patternsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both species control the contrast in a pattern of dark and light, somewhat blurred, spots roughly 10mm across. In Paralichthys both the mean reflectance and the contrast of the background influence the coloration, and the maximum contrast across the body ranged from 14% to 70% (Saidel 1988). Another North Atlantic species, the plaice (Pleuronectes platessa; Figure 1A; Kelman et al 2006), has an advantage over the summer and winter flounders in that it can add two patterns to a fairly uniform 'ground' pattern.…”
Section: Flatfish Patternsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…white structural reflectors (Lanzing, 1977); see Fig.·1A]. In a study of how visual backgrounds affect coloration in two species of flatfish, southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) and winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus), Saidel (Saidel, 1988) concluded that both the mean reflectance and the contrast of the background have an influence. Maximal contrast in pattern of Paralichthys ranged from 14% to 70%, according to the background.…”
Section: Natural Textures and Camouflage Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The plaice's system for producing body patterns can be compared with those of the other flatfish (Pleuronecticformes), namely southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma), winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) (Saidel, 1988) and the eyed flounder Bothus ocellatus (Ramachandran et al, 1996). Paralicthys and Pseudopleuronectes have (at least) one such pattern, Pleuronectes two, and Bothus three.…”
Section: Comparison With Other Speciesmentioning
confidence: 99%