title: Visual optics: The sandlance eye breaks all the rules.
abstract: The eyes of the sandlance differ from those of other fish, both optically and in the kinds of movements they make. The predatory behaviour of these tiny fish not only makes their lifestyle similar to that of a chameleon, but has led to several extraordinary examples of convergence in the visual system.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Land
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D008116:Lizards