ends during starts during death eye photoreceptor cell retinal cone cell eye photoreceptor cell (cone) XAO:0004111 cone photoreceptor cell xenbase3 CL:0000573 2011-08-25T10:19:21Z xenopus_anatomy One of the two photoreceptor cell types in the retina. In cones the photopigment is in invaginations of the cell membrane of the outer segment. Cones are less sensitive to light than rods, but they provide vision with higher spatial and temporal acuity, and the combination of signals from cones with different pigments allows color vision. NF stage 42