pinhole camera eye

pinhole camera eye
a teratological condition in which the size of the eye is reduced, the lens is absent and the pupil is very small, acting as a pinhole camera, e.g. observed in white crappie, Pomoxis annularis (Centrarchidae) and Kurtus gulliveri (Kurtidae)

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