Horseshoe crab
The Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus), also known as the King Crab, is a marine arthropod that lives in shallow waters on the sea floor.
Regardless of its name, it is more closely pertaining to spiders, ticks, and also scorpions than to crabs. There are four varieties of horseshoe crabs, three of them located in Asia and also the other in The United States and Canada. All 4 are quite comparable in type and also actions.
It has a difficult external shell that is shaped like a horseshoe, and is green grey to dark brown in color. It has 5 pairs of jointed legs and a set of pincers.
Horseshoe crabs have 2 compound eyes on the top of their coverings. Females are larger compared to men and can mature to 2 feet (60 centimeters) lengthy and also weighs up 4.5 kg. Horseshoe crabs grow by molting and also emerge 25 percent larger with each molt.
These crabs feed mostly at night and burrow. Its diet plan sea worms and also mollusks (like young clams). The female lays propel the beach in early summer season, and also the young hatch in regarding six weeks.