#limulus

[saritawolf]

Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[sarahmackattack]

She's in her natural habitat

[shimmy--sham]

Words cannot describe how genuinely happy I was to see Limulus again.........

[starminesister]

Last night I ordered a horseshoe crab (technically the molted shell of a horseshoe crab) from an Etsy shop.

I love being an adult with a credit card.

[just-a-tardigrade]

[tanuki-fleas]

"Limulus...they're still here. We're not so unalike... they've just been here longer."

[holocyclic]

thinking about her

[fromthedust]

Horseshoe crabs:  Limulus polyphemus, Tachypleus tridentatus

eggs

Cancer of Moluccas (Crabs of the Moluccan [Spice] Islands) - in August Basilius and Michael Rupertus Fasciculus rariorum Book (Petrus Iselburg drew them alive) - 1616 - in Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany  

Selected Delights of Nature from Natural History Cabinet - Georg Wolfgang Knorr - 1766-1767

Recherches sur l'anatomie des Limules (Horseshoe Crab Anatomy Research) - Paris - 1873

Tachypleus tridentatus - Fauna japonica - vol.1 - 1833

The Horseshoe crab - Limulus polyphemus from the John Reeves Collection

horseshoe crab anatomy - nervous system

Ernst Haeckel - Athropods - from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) published in 1904

Charlie’s Horseshoe Crab costume - 2018 Halloween Costume Contest - Kimberly, the 'Horseshoe Crab' costume creator writes: Charlie, 4 years old, loves ocean animals and decided she wanted to be a horseshoe crab for Halloween. Her Dad made the costume using EVA foam exercise mats (using a heat gun to mold/sculpt the right shape), contact cement, and a Plasti-dip base coast with a spray paint finish. Spandex was used for the joints between the segments, so she can get around pretty well. The costume is put on using a handmade vest with Velcro straps for easy on and off. 

June 20 is International Horseshoe Crab Day