Visual adaptations of the eye of the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata).

Vet Res Commun

Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Post Box: 22785, Rashid, Edfina, Behera, Egypt.

Published: December 2017

The current investigation represents the morphological description of the adaptation of gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata to its environmental conditions. For the achievement of this study twelve mature fishes were used for gross, light and electron microscope examinations. The cornea is consists of three layers; an anterior stratified cuboidal epithelium, bowman layer, and a dermal stroma. A mucoid layer located between the dermal stroma and the anterior part of the scleral cornea, while the iridescent layer located between the anterior and the posterior scleral stroma. The retina is composed of ten layers. There are two areas of the retina; non-nervous and nervous. The non-nervous area is represented only by the thick pigmented epithelium layer. The retina has both rod and cone photoreceptors. The cones are differentiated into three types; single, double and triple cones. Rods inner segments contain numerous mitochondria while that of the cones has ellipsosomes. These ellipsosomes may function in condensing light in the outer segment. There is a clear correlation between ellipsosomes formation in the inner segment of cone and night condition.

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