pteridine pigments

pteridine pigments
A group of nitrogen-containing compounds producing leucopterin (white), xanthopterin (yellow) the most widely distributed, isoxanthopterin (purple florescence) and biopterin (blue floresence); pigments important in the natural pigmentation of many invertebrates, as well as plants.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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