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Carcinoscorpius
The mangrove horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) is a chelicerate arthropod found in marine and brackish waters. Despite its name, it is more closely related to spiders and scorpions (all are in the subphylum Chelicerata) than to crabs. It is the only species in the genus Carcinoscorpius. The mangrove horseshoe crab occurs only in Asia and can be found in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong. There are four extant species of horseshoe...
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 362580.