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To the Question of Eyes in Primitive Crustaceans
Author(s) -
Elofsson Rolf
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
acta zoologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1463-6395
pISSN - 0001-7272
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1992.tb01109.x
Subject(s) - malacostraca , crustacean , biology , apposition , anatomy , compound eye , zoology , evolutionary biology , decapoda , physics , optics
Based on a review of studies of functional and comparative anatomy of crustacean eyes, a hypothesis is formed on eyes in primitive crustaceans. It is suggested that they were similar to present‐day frontal eyes of the malacostracan type. Neuronal architecture suggests that the development to apposition compound eye followed two main routes, one seen in malacostracans and the other in non‐malacostracans. Within the two subgroups different and separate lines have been followed to form specialized apposition types and, within the Malacostraca, superposition eyes as pointed out by Nilsson (Nilsson, D. E. 1989. Facets of vision , pp. 30–73).