Horseshoe Crab (18164047673)
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Description: This is the time of the year when horseshoe crabs approach the shore to lay their eggs. The larger female can release one or more egg packets that the smaller male attached to her then can fertilize. They often get covered with other organisms like barnacles as in this photograph. Date: Taken on 11 June 2015, 18:30. Source: Horseshoe Crab. Author: Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Chelicerata (chelicerates)
- Merostomata (Merostomes)
- Xiphosurida (horseshoe crabs and relatives)
- Limulina
- Limulidae (horseshoe crabs)
- Limulus
- Limulus polyphemus (American Horseshoe Crab)
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