Merostomata Arthropoda Animalia Flora and Fauna

Promotes public awareness of the four remaining species. Natural history, conservation, medical uses, education, sightings, stories, images, glossary, and bibliography.

• Horseshoe Crab - Information on this benthic crab, Limulus polyphemus, its merostomata life cycle, habitat and its commercial harvest, primarily merostomata for bait.
• The Amazing Horseshoe - Information on these crabs, family Limulidae, their anatomy, life cycle, animalia ecological niche, spawning and medical uses.
• Horseshoe Crabs: The Ancient Mariner - Information on these crabs, which have evolved little in the last 250 million years, their behavior and mating ritual.
• The Horseshoe Crab - Limulus polyphemus - Brief profile of species biology and ongoing research, with a arthropoda photo.
• Merostomata - Brief description of the class, from the Animal animalia Diversity Web.
• Limulus polyphemus - Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics, arthropoda natural history, external and internal anatomy and trilobite arthropoda larva of this horseshoe crab.

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