pinhole eye

Simple eye that has a small aperture (which may be adjustable) and deep pit. It is only found in the nautiloids.

النوع Organ
البنية الأم simple eye

الأسئلة الشائعة

How does a pinhole eye form an image without a lens?
A pinhole eye works on the same principle as a pinhole camera: a very small aperture allows only a narrow cone of light from each point in the environment to enter the deep pit and strike the photoreceptors. This geometry produces a focused image without any lens. The trade-off is that the small aperture admits very little light, limiting visual performance in dim conditions.
Which animals have pinhole eyes?
Pinhole eyes are found almost exclusively in nautiloids — the cephalopod molluscs (nautilus and its relatives). The nautilus eye has no lens and no cornea; the pupil is an adjustable aperture that opens in dim conditions. This remarkable eye is considered a living example of an intermediate evolutionary stage between simple pit eyes and lensed eyes.
Can the aperture of a nautilus pinhole eye change?
Yes — the nautilus can regulate the size of its pinhole aperture, making it wider in darkness to admit more light (at the cost of image sharpness) and smaller in bright conditions to improve image resolution. This adjustable aperture is functionally analogous to the iris-controlled pupil of vertebrates, though achieved through a fundamentally different mechanism.

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Data sources: Terminologia Anatomica, Foundational Model of Anatomy, Wikidata.