All eyes on this amazing amphipod 👀⁠ ⁠ While these deep-sea amphipods are highly transparent and essentially invisible in the dark midnight zone, they are quite visible when side-lit by the bright lights of our ROVs.⁠ ⁠ Cystisoma has a complex visual system. They have a curtain-like retina, with widely separated structures called rhabdoms. Rhabdoms are transparent, crystalline receptive structures found in the compound eyes of arthropods (which includes insects, arachnids, and crustaceans). Inc