Evolutionary adaptations in sensory organs among wildlife in sandstorm?

What possible evolutionary adaptations could you foresee in the sensory organs of wildlife in an environment beset by a nigh-permanent sandstorm? e.g. in the case of vision, ways to protect the eyes from sand, as well as to enhance their vision in that specific low-light scenario.

Secondly, what about hearing? Or even the mouth-plans of creatures in the environmental equivalent of a sand-blaster? I'm sure scent would be heavily hampered -- or would it? Touch and its subforms, and perhaps mechanoreception, would probably become important (I'm guessing.)

But what do you think? What sort of adaptations would you foresee?

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