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Taxon profile

family

modern horseshoe crab
Limulidae Zittel, 1885

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Arthropoda - arthropods »  class Merostomata »  order Xiphosura - Horseshoe crabs »  infraorder Limulina

Scientific synonyms

Xiphosuridae

Images

Limulus polyphemus - Atlantic Horseshoe Crab

Limulus polyphemus - Atlantic Horseshoe Crab

Author: Milan Kořínek

Tachypleus hoeveni - Indonesian Horseshoe Crab

Tachypleus hoeveni - Indonesian Horseshoe Crab

Author: Barbora Frýdová

Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda - Southeast Asian Horseshoe Crab

Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda - Southeast Asian Horseshoe Crab

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Included taxa

Number of records: 3

subfamily Limulinae Zittel, 1885

Fossil taxa

subfamily Mesolimulinae Størmer, 1952
genus Lunataspis Rudkin, Young & Nowlan, 2008

Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [104371]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [http://www.irmng.org] [as Limulidae Zittel, 1885]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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Explanations

extinct taxon