microphthalmic

The African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) are strictly subterranean, congenitally microphthalmic rodents that are hardly ever exposed to environmental light.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ondřej Kott et al. 2010

The African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) are strictly subterranean, congenitally microphthalmic rodents that are hardly ever exposed to environmental light.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ondřej Kott et al. 2010

The cases of the three calves which inherited the one-horned condition of the cow, the two sons who inherited a father's crooked finger, and the two sons who were microphthalmic on the same side as their father had lost an eye, may be due to mere coincidence; or an inherited constitutional tendency or liability might lead to somewhat similar results in parent and offspring [63] -- just as the tendency to certain fatal diseases or to suicide may produce similar results in father and son, although the artificially-produced hanging or apoplexy obviously cannot be directly transmitted.

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

A soldier, fifteen years before his marriage, lost his left eye from purulent ophthalmia, and his two sons were microphthalmic on the same side. "

Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

Indeed, strictly subterranean mammals are congenitally microphthalmic and possess a severely reduced visual system, although the degree of reduction vary substantially among species (for review, see

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ondřej Kott et al. 2010