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|  Eye pictures  Dissection 1  Dissection 2  Recording 1  Recording 2  Scallop home | 
| The bay scallop, Pecten irradians, has many strikingly blue eyes. Each scallop usually has between 40 and 60 eyes. | |
|  One eye from a close-up view. (Photo by Gomez and Nasi) |  Here you can see also the tentacles very well. Click HERE for a 3-second (500kB) video scanning across the scallop eye. | 
|  Part of the scallop with 5 eyes visible. |  In this up-close black and white photo the orange arrows point to the eyes. | 
|  Here is the scallop mantle (pieced together from 5 separate photos) in the dissecting dish. |  This is a close-up view of the photo above and to the left. | 
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