Eyespot can mean:
Visual features
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Eyespot (mimicry)
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking. They are found in butterflies, reptiles, cats, birds and fish.
Eyespots could be explained in at least three different ways. They may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an a ...
, a color mark that looks somewhat like an eye
* Eyespot, a sensory organ of invertebrates; see
simple eye in invertebrates
A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit) 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. These eyes are called "simple" to distinguish the ...
* Eyespot, a type of eye in some gastropods, a part of
sensory organs of gastropods
The sense, sensory organs of gastropods (snails and slugs) include olfaction, olfactory organs, mollusc eye, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no sense of hearing.Chase R.: ''Sensory Organs and the Nervous System''. in Barker G ...
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Eyespot apparatus
The eyespot apparatus (or '' stigma'') is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and int ...
, a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate (motile) cells unicellular photosynthetic organisms
Diseases
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Eyespot (wheat)
Eyespot is an important fungal disease of wheat caused by the necrotrophic fungus Tapesia yallundae (syn: ''Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides''; W-type namorph ''Oculimacula yallundae'') and Tapesia acuformis (syn: ''Pseudocercosporella he ...
, a disease of wheat.
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Groundnut eyespot virus, a plant pathogenic virus
Fish species
* Eyespot gourami (''
Parasphaerichthys ocellatus'')
* Eyespot puffer (''
Tetraodon biocellatus
''Dichotomyctere ocellatus'' ( syn. ''Tetraodon biocellatus''), commonly the figure 8 puffer or eyespot puffer, is a pufferfish found in freshwater in Southeast Asia. It is known from the lower reaches of the Mekong (Cambodia), the Peninsular M ...
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Eyespot skate (''Atlantoraja cyclophora'')
Reptile species
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Eyespot gecko
The eyespot gecko (''Gonatodes ocellatus'') is a species of lizard in the Sphaerodactylidae family native to Tobago
Tobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalitie ...
(''Gonatodes ocellatus'')
See also
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Floaters
Floaters or eye floaters are sometimes visible deposits (e.g., the shadows of tiny structures of protein or other cell debris projected onto the retina) within the Human eye, eye's vitreous humour ("the vitreous"), which is normally transparent, ...
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