Horseshoe Crab Size
Size of Horseshoe Crab
Weight | Up to 9 pounds |
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Lifespan | Up to 20 years |
The Horseshoe Crab is a member of the arthropoda, In taxonomy, its phylum is Arthropoda, the class is Malacostraca, and it belongs to the order Xiphosurida.
The Horseshoe Crab belonged to the family Limulidae, mainly distributed in Ocean. They like to live in coastal waters, and Their skin type is shell, and their bodies have multiple colors, mainly brown, grey, tan, green. In addition, worms, claims, algae, and dead fish are also foods that it often preys.Their main predators are sharks, alligators, sea turtles, and seabirds.It is currently estimated that there are Unknown.
The most distinctive feature of Horseshoe Crab is the hard horseshoe-shaped shell. If we use one sentence to describe the Horseshoe Crab, it is "Changed little in over 500 million years!".