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Blindness in animals can be caused be the result of environmental adaptations over time, or due to various conditions of the eyes. [1] Many blind species have been able to adapt, [ 2 ] navigate and survive in their environment by relying on their other senses .
Caecilians (/ s ɪ ˈ s ɪ l i ə n /; New Latin for 'blind ones') are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians.
A blind fish is a fish without functional eyes. [1] Most blind fish species are found in dark habitats such as the deep ocean, deep river channels and underground. [2]
Monocular vision is vision using only one eye. It is seen in two distinct categories: either a species moves its eyes independently, or a species typically uses two eyes for vision, but is unable to use one due to circumstances such as injury. [1] Monocular vision can occur in both humans and animals (such as hammerhead sharks).
Eyes Regressed. Almost normally developed, although still small compared to other amphibians. Covered by a thin layer of transparent skin, no eyelids. Regressed eye of White Proteus shows first of all immunolabelling for the red-sensitive cone opsin. The eye of Black Proteus has principal rods, red-sensitive cones and blue- or UV- sensitive cones.
The head and tail are superficially similar as the head and neck are indistinct. Unlike other snakes, the head scales resemble the body scales. The eyes are barely discernible as small dots under the head scales. The tip of the tail has a small, pointed spur. Along the body are fourteen rows of dorsal scales. Coloration ranges from charcoal ...
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Head of Polistes with two compound eyes and three ocelli (circled). A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit [1] [2]) is a form of eye or an optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates.