Tachypleus gigas, commonly known as the Indo-Pacific horseshoe crab,[3]Indonesian horseshoe crab,[4]Indian horseshoe crab,[5] or southern horseshoe crab,[6] is one of the four extant (living) species of horseshoe crab. It is found in coastal water in South and Southeast Asia at depths to 40 m (130 ft).[2]
^World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Tachypleus gigas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T21308A9266907. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21308A9266907.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
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^Mark L. Bolton & Carl N. Schuster Jr. with John A. Keinath (2003). "Horseshoe crabs in a food web: who eats whom?". In Carl N. Shuster Jr.; Robert B. Barlow & H. Jane Brockmann (eds.). The American Horseshoe Crab. Harvard University Press. pp. 133–153. ISBN 978-0-674-01159-5.
^Louis Leibovitz & Gregory A. Lewbart (2003). "Diseases and symbionts: vulnerability despite tough shells". In Carl N. Shuster Jr.; Robert B. Barlow & H. Jane Brockmann (eds.). The American Horseshoe Crab. Harvard University Press. pp. 245–275. ISBN 978-0-674-01159-5.
^Mark L. Botton (2001). "The conservation of horseshoe crabs: what can we learn from the Japanese experience?". In John T. Tanacredi (ed.). Limulus in the Limelight: a Species 350 Million Years in the Making and in Peril?. Springer. pp. 41–52. ISBN 978-0-306-46681-6.
^"Identification guide". Horseshoe Crab monitoring site. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
5 cm (10.4 in) wide. Tachypleusgigas has a sage-green chitinous exoskeleton. Like other horseshoe crabs, the carapace of T. gigas consists of a larger...
tolerates colder temperatures than the other Asian horseshoe crabs (Tachypleusgigas and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda), although juveniles still need water...
species: Tachypleus gigas (Müller, 1785) Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819) And two extinct species only known from fossil. Tachypleus decheni (Zincken...
of Mexico Tachypleusgigas, the Indo-Pacific, Indonesian, Indian or southern horseshoe crab, found in South and Southeast Asia Tachypleus tridentatus...
endotoxins. In Asia, a similar Tachypleus amebocyte lysate (TAL) test based on the local horseshoe crabs Tachypleusgigas or Tachypleus tridentatus is occasionally...
rotundicauda and the two other Asian horseshoe crab species, Tachypleusgigas and Tachypleus tridentatus, have not been as well documented as those of the...
quite similar in form and behavior. The Asian species are Tachypleus tridentatus, Tachypleusgigas and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda. Most Atlantic horseshoe...
crabs Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda are found in Hong Kong's waters, and there are reported sighting of Tachypleusgigas. Mangroves...
the four species of horseshoe crabs: Limulus polyphemus, Tachypleus tridentatus, Tachypleusgigas, and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda. They are deemed “living...
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