cornea

cornea
() [Baba, 2005].
Anterior part of carapace, including ocular peduncles, based on Munidopsis. [Baba, 2005]
A transparent horny membrane forming the distal covering of the eye [Ingle, 1980].
Faceted portion of the eye [Butler, T.H.].
Faceted, usually pigmented portion of the eye (Fig. 3A) [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997].
Facetted and pigmented part of eyestalk [Poore, 2004].
The faceted portion of the eye [Chace and Hobbs, 1969].
The terminal cap of the eye, faceted except in most troglobites [Hobbs, Hobbs, and Daniel 1977].
Transparent cuticle covering ommatidia of compound eye [Moore and McCormick, 1969].
Transparent cuticle covering ommatidia of compound eye [McLaughlin, 1980].
(Order Decapoda):
Transparent cuticle covering ommatidia of each eye [Stachowitsch, 1992].
(Order Stomatopoda):
Outermost layer of compound eye; may be divided into upper and lower units. (bilobed, cylindrical, globular, subglobular, laterally expanded; at right angle to stalk, oblique on stalk) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

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