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Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)🐚

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SpeciesXiphosuridaLimulidae
Invertebrates

🐚Atlantic horseshoe crab

Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758)

アメリカカブトガニ（学名：Limulus polyphemus）は、カブトガニ科アメリカカブトガニ属に属するカブトガニ類の一種。メキシコ湾を含む北西大西洋沿岸に分布する海洋生物。ヨーロッパでも迷入個体が発見されている。

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≈ 1/34th of your weight
Also called
American Horseshoe Crab, Horseshoe crab, Horseshoe Crab
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Atlantic horseshoe crab

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.81 kgmaximum recorded
SeaLifeBase
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Body length
0.6 mmaximum recorded, total length
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsmaximum recorded
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Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
1.8 Laverage
Details ↓

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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMerostomata
  4. ›orderXiphosurida
  5. ›familyLimulidae
  6. ›genusLimulus
  7. ›speciesLimulus polyphemus
Full lineage
  1. classMerostomata
  2. orderXiphosura
  3. familyLimulidae
  4. genusLimulus
All 7 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. classMerostomata
  5. orderXiphosura
  6. familyLimulidae
  7. genusLimulus
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美洲鱟 (zh), Cassola de l'Atlàntic (ca), Cangrejo bayoneta (es), atlanti tőrfarkú rák (hu), アメリカカブトガニ (ja), Atlantische degenkrab (nl) … and 20 more languages

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