Animals With More Than Two Eyes
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Jumping spiders have eight eyes - two large front eyes - used to judge distance and get a clear image and extra side eyes used to detect movement
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Chitons are protected by a shell consisting of eight plates. The plates are dotted with hundreds of small eyes called ocelli
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Horseshoe Crab, equipped with compound and simple eyes, use their visual capabilities to detect movement and locate prey in their aquatic habitat
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The adult fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has seven eyes - a pair of compound eyes, a trio of ocelli, and two extra-retinal eyelets
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Scallops have up to 200 eyes, each about the size of a poppy seed, located along the edge of their mantle, or outer shell lining
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Box Jellyfish have 6 eyes on each of their 4 rhopalia, creating a total of 24 eyes
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Scorpions can have six to twelve eyes. They have two to five smaller eyes on each side of their head, and a pair of larger eyes in the middle of their carapace
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