have unambiguously compound eyes consisting of multiple lenses (up to tens of thousands), but achieve an effect similar to that of an eye, in that each ommatidium lens focuses light onto a number of neighbouring retinulae.

Ocelli or eye spots

Some jellyfish, sea stars, flatworms, and ribbonworms have the simplest "eyes" - ''pigment spot ocelli'' -

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