Seeing Starfish (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Seeing Starfish (3 of 3)

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The starfish compound eye (red cups) sits at the base of a modified tube foot. Each red cup corresponds to a single optical unit, ommatidium, in an arthropod compound eye.

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Dan-Erik Nilsson, Lund University

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