Tachypleus

Tachypleus
Temporal range: 145–0 Ma
Late Jurassic to present[1]
Tachypleus tridentatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Order:Xiphosura
Family:Limulidae
Genus:Tachypleus
(Leach, 1819)
Synonyms
  • †Heterolimulus (Via Boada & Villalta, 1966)

Tachypleus is a genus of south, southeast and east Asian horseshoe crabs in the family Limulidae.

Species

There are two extant (living) species:

And two extinct species only known from fossil remains:

  • Tachypleus gadeai (Via Boada & Villalta, 1966)
  • Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward, 1879)

References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Arthropoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2007-08-02. Retrieved 2007-12-31.


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