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 (sometimes called a pigment pit) refers to a form of eye or an optical arrangement composed of a single lens and without an elaborate retina such as occurs in most vertebrates. In this sense "simple eye" is distinct from a multi-le ...
* Eyespot, a type of eye in some gastropods, a part of
sensory organs of gastropods
The sensory organs of gastropods (snails and slugs) include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no sense of hearing.Chase R.: ''Sensory Organs and the Nervous System''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): ''The biology ...
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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 herp ...
, a disease of wheat.
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Groundnut eyespot virus
Groundnut may refer to:
* Seeds that ripen underground, of the following plants, all in the Faboideae subfamily of the legumes:
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** ''Arachis villosulicarpa'', a perennial peanut species
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, a plant pathogenic virus
Fish species
* Eyespot gourami (''
Parasphaerichthys ocellatus
The eyespot gourami (''Parasphaerichthys ocellatus'') is a species of gourami endemic to Myanmar where it occurs in small, muddy streams and well vegetated shores of lakes. The species reaches 5 cm (2 inches) in standard length
Fish measureme ...
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* 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 Ma ...
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Eyespot skate
The eyespot skate (''Atlantoraja cyclophora'') is a species of fish in the family Arhynchobatidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are open sea
The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, i ...
(''Atlantoraja cyclophora'')
Reptile species
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Eyespot gecko
The eyespot gecko (''Gonatodes ocellatus'') is a species of lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The gr ...
(''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 eye's vitreous humour ("the vitreous"), which is normally transparent, or between ...
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