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compound eye

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000018


A light sensing organ composed of ommatidia. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_eye http://flybase.org/reports/gg.html ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, organ_slim

UBPROP 0000008

The term compound eye is sometimes used for the multi-unit eyes of annelids, bivalves, echinoderms. We follow Richter et al and restrict this class to the arthropod structure for these structures

has related synonym

adult compound eye, Komplexauge, zusammengesetztes Auge, faceted eye, Facettenauge, insect eye

id

UBERON:0000018

see also

https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/457