Tachypleus
| Tachypleus Temporal range: Late Jurassic to present[1]
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| Tachypleus tridentatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | Xiphosura |
| Family: | Limulidae |
| Genus: | Tachypleus (Leach, 1819) |
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Tachypleus is a genus of south, southeast and east Asian horseshoe crabs in the family Limulidae.
Species
There are two extant (living) species:
- Tachypleus gigas (Müller, 1785)
- Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819)
And two extinct species only known from fossil remains:
- Tachypleus gadeai (Via Boada & Villalta, 1966)
- Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward, 1879)
References
- ^ 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.
External links
Media related to Tachypleus at Wikimedia Commons
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