Tachypleus gigas

Tachypleus gigas
Female, off the Bay of Bengal
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: Xiphosura
Family: Limulidae
Genus: Tachypleus
Species:
T. gigas
Binomial name
Tachypleus gigas
(Müller, 1785)
Synonyms[2]
  • Limulus gigas Müller, 1785
  • Limulus moluccanus Latreille, 1802

Tachypleus gigas, commonly known as the Indo-Pacific horseshoe crab,[3] Indonesian horseshoe crab,[4] Indian horseshoe crab,[5] or southern horseshoe crab,[6] is one of the four extant (living) species of horseshoe crab. It is found in coastal water in South and Southeast Asia at depths to 40 m (130 ft).[2]

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Tachypleus gigas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T21308A9266907. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21308A9266907.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Lazarus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Mark L. Bolton & Carl N. Schuster Jr. with John A. Keinath (2003). "Horseshoe crabs in a food web: who eats whom?". In Carl N. Shuster Jr.; Robert B. Barlow & H. Jane Brockmann (eds.). The American Horseshoe Crab. Harvard University Press. pp. 133–153. ISBN 978-0-674-01159-5.
  4. ^ Louis Leibovitz & Gregory A. Lewbart (2003). "Diseases and symbionts: vulnerability despite tough shells". In Carl N. Shuster Jr.; Robert B. Barlow & H. Jane Brockmann (eds.). The American Horseshoe Crab. Harvard University Press. pp. 245–275. ISBN 978-0-674-01159-5.
  5. ^ Mark L. Botton (2001). "The conservation of horseshoe crabs: what can we learn from the Japanese experience?". In John T. Tanacredi (ed.). Limulus in the Limelight: a Species 350 Million Years in the Making and in Peril?. Springer. pp. 41–52. ISBN 978-0-306-46681-6.
  6. ^ "Identification guide". Horseshoe Crab monitoring site. Retrieved 26 June 2018.