Review of the Biology and Management of Horseshoe Crabs, with Emphasis on Florida Populations.

摘要

The horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, lives in waters along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States.They are related to spiders and scorpions, and their ancestors date back 500 million years. Although all horseshoe crabs in the United States belong to the same species, genetics studies have shown that they form discrete populations; horseshoe crabs on the Atlantic coast are genetically different from those on the gulf coast.