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Merostomata
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Merostomata is a class of marine Chelicerata which includes horseshoe crabs and eurypterids. It includes only four living species but dozens of fossil species mainly from the Paleozoic.
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Promotes public awareness of the four remaining species. Natural history, conservation, medical uses, education, sightings, stories, images, glossary, and bibliography.
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Brief description of the class, from the Animal Diversity Web.
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Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Photographs and information on the biology and mating behavior of these creatures which are not closely related to true crabs.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Information on these crabs, which have evolved little in the last 250 million years, their behavior and mating ritual.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Information on this benthic crab, Limulus polyphemus, its life cycle, habitat and its commercial harvest, primarily for bait.
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Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics, natural history, external and internal anatomy and trilobite larva of this horseshoe crab.
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