What's the difference between a Neuron and a Photoreceptor in the eye?!

Question: What's the difference between a Neuron and a Photoreceptor in the eye?

...AND! are rods/cones a neuron? a photoreceptor?
please clear this up for me! im confused

Answers:

Photoreceptors are cells that are light-sensitive; when a photon of light hits them, they send a signal that gets passed through a couple levels of ganglion cells to the neurons, which carry it to the brain. Technically, photoreceptors are a special type of neurons, but when we speak of retinal neurons, we usually mean the other ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_path…

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What's the difference between a Neuron and a Photoreceptor in the eye?!

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