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WoRMS taxon details
Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 150514
AphiaID: 150514
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Merostomata (Class) > Xiphosurida (Order) > Limulidae (Family) > Limulus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Limulus O.F. Müller, 1785 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Pollock, 1998 [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] West North Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Gulf of Maine to Gulf of Mexico [details] | |||||||||||||
| Edit history |
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| Citation: Boxshall, G. (2010). Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150514 on 2010-09-02 | ||||||||||||||
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