Jelly vision
Natural History, Nov, 2002 by Martin Hammond
How does Chironex fleckeri, the Australian box jellyfish described in Jamie Seymour's article "One Touch of Venom" (9/02), see the fish it is pursuing?
Martin Hammond Cupertino, California
JAMIE SEYMOUR REPLIES: Unlike other jellies, many cubozoans, or box jellyfishes, have eyes. On each side of C. fleckeri's body is a small sensory organ with a set of eyes on top. The eyes have both a retina and a lens and appear to be capable of forming images. How these animals process information is still unknown; they appear to have no centralized nervous system or brain.
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