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This particular reflex is autonomic as the affected muscle, constrictor pupillae muscle, is a smooth muscle and not under conscious control. Typically if you can consciously contract the muscle, any reflex associated with that muscle is somatic in nature.

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It is somatic, because the muscle it controls is a skeletal muscle.

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It is involuntery and occurs through parasympathetic division of occulomotor nerve.So it is autonomic reflex.

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It is autonomic because it is involuntary

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It is both somatic and autonomic

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somatic.

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