oh my gosh i just learned about cambropachycope clarksoni. one compound eye? how neat. the only thing i know of which is at all like this is copepods, but they have much smaller eyes and aren't as cephalized.
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The waterflea compound eye is singular too! Again, not an anatomist, but perhaps this may be of interest? tinyurl.com/rey7h3yu
aug 18, 2025, 10:24 pm • 2 0 • view
i wonder at what point does it stop being two eyes and start becoming one eye
aug 18, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
they're really interesting! if you look at the internals, is the processing still significantly two eyed?
aug 18, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I do not know. My not-being-an-anatomist strikes again. It is likely acrocerid vision has never been neurologically studied ever due to acrocerids being an obscure group. Your best bet is to research tabanids (the other family in which holoptic eyes that closely fused are common) instead. However:
aug 19, 2025, 3:43 am • 2 0 • view
at least some male tabanids have evolved a thing analogous to the four-eyedness of gyrinids and Anableps where the top half of both eyes is a different color and is specialized for scanning for mates. www.cell.com/current-biol...
aug 19, 2025, 3:50 am • 3 1 • view
thank you- and how interesting!
aug 19, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
easily weirdest "head" of all lifeforms i've seen. cant tell if its cute or creepy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
aug 18, 2025, 8:01 pm • 2 0 • view