ID the injury, desease, parasite in V. berus eye

[Michal Szkudlarek]

It's a nematode.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Would be my guess too, but never seen anything like it in reptiles.

[Kristian Munkholm]

Definitely looks like a parasite and nematode seems a good guess but I'm not really qualified to verify.

I'd never heard of any such thing in reptiles either but a little googling brought me to an old article on a nematode that infects the eyes of N. natrix http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19690801825.html. And no, I don't have the article itself.

Interesting (and creepy!) whatever it is.