🐚Atlantic horseshoe crab
The Atlantic horseshoe crab, also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a kind of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod. It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast of North America. The main area of annual migration is Delaware Bay along the South Jersey Delaware Bayshore.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 1.81 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 20 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic horseshoe crab
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
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Body length0.6 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan20 yearsmaximum recordedSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Atlantic horseshoe crab yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classMerostomata
- ›orderXiphosurida
- ›familyLimulidae
- ›genusLimulus
- ›speciesLimulus polyphemus
- classMerostomata
- orderXiphosura
- familyLimulidae
- genusLimulus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- classMerostomata
- orderXiphosura
- familyLimulidae
- genusLimulus
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