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Limulus polyphemus

Limulus polyphemus

American horseshoe crab(+30)·(Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF:298554718

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(13)

West North Atlantic
Germany
introduced
United States
introduced
New Zealand
introduced
North Sea
introduced
North Sea
introduced
Danish part of the Kattegat
introduced
German Bight
introduced
North East Atlantic
Danish Exclusive Economic Zone
introduced
North West Atlantic
North West Atlantic
Gulf of Maine

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 18 languages.

engAmerican horseshoe crabenghunAtlanti tőrfarkúhunhunAtlanti tőrfarkú rákhunengAtlantic horseshoe crabengturAtlantik Atnalı Kıskaçlısıtur+26 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 18 languages.

engAmerican horseshoe crab
eng
hunAtlanti tőrfarkú
hun
hunAtlanti tőrfarkú rák
hun
engAtlantic horseshoe crab
eng
turAtlantik Atnalı Kıskaçlısı
tur
nldAtlantische degenkrab
nld
spaCacerola de mar
spa
spaCangrejo Herradura del Atlántico
spa
spaCangrejo bayoneta
spa
spaCangrejo cacerola
spa
spaCangrejo de herradura
spa
spaCangrejo herradura
spa
catCassola de les Moluques
cat
nldDegenkrab
nld
danDolkhale
dan
engKing crab
eng
fraLimule atlantique
fra
porLímulo
por
slvatlantska podkvasta rakovica
slv
swedolksvans
swe
enghorseshoe crab
eng
cesostrorep americký
ces
polskrzypłocz atlantycki
pol
rusКраб-подкова
rus
thaแมงดาแอตแลนติก
tha
jpnアメリカカブトガニ
jpn
zho夫妻魚
zho
zho美洲鱟
zho
zho馬蹄蟹
zho
zho
zho
kor대서양투구게
kor

CLASSIFICATION

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HIERARCHY

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
298554718
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
1010610
Taxon ID
72F33
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026