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Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)🐚

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SpeciesXiphosuridaLimulidae
Invertebrates

🐚Atlantic horseshoe crab

Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758)

美洲鲎（學名：Limulus polyphemus）又名大西洋鲎，是鱟科美洲鲎属的一种，也是美洲鲎属的唯一的现存物种。 美洲鲎主要分佈在墨西哥灣和北美洲東岸。主要的活动区域是特拉华湾。漂流的個體偶爾在欧洲发现。很多渔场也会养殖鲎作为海鲜对外销售。它們可以生長至51厘米長。

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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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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.

Where it sits

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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In other languages
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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