Horseshoe Crabs (Xiphosura) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the horseshoe crabs, marine chelicerate arthropods that are not true crabs and are the only surviving xiphosurans. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a horseshoe crab. It excludes sea spiders, millipedes, centipedes and springtails, which have their own groups or none. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Mangrove Horseshoe Crab (Wikidata)
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The mangrove horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda), also known as the round-tailed horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a chelicerate arthropod found in tropical marine and brackish waters of India, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia.
Tachypleus tridentatus (Wikipedia)
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Tachypleus tridentatus, commonly known as the Chinese horseshoe crab, Japanese horseshoe crab, or tri-spine horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab found in Southeast and East Asia, with records from China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Indo-Pacific Horseshoe Crab (Wikidata)
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Tachypleus gigas, commonly known as the Indo-Pacific horseshoe crab, Indonesian horseshoe crab, Indian horseshoe crab, or southern horseshoe crab, is one of the four extant (living) species of horseshoe crab.
Horseshoe Crab (Wikipedia)
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Horseshoe crabs are arthropods of the family Limulidae and the only surviving xiphosurans.
Wikipedia: Atlantic horseshoe crab
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The Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a kind of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod.
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