This is a Horseshoe Crab or Atlantic Horseshoe Crab. It is mostly light brown in color with a long tail and many sharp protuberances. It measures 37 cm long and 20.5 cm wide.
- Catalog Number:
- 405609
- Object/Specimen Description:
- Specimen Count:
- 1
- Precise Locality:
Scientists' Cliffs, Gate A
- Locality:
- US Mid Atlantic (PA, NJ, MD, DE, DC, VA, WV)
- Sex:
- Female
- Collecting Locality:
- North America, United States, Maryland, Calvert County
- Upper Level Taxonomy:
- Animalia, Arthropoda, Chelicerata, Merostomata, Xiphosura, Limulidae, Limulinae