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Horseshoe Crabs
Denise Garcia
Created on November 18, 2024
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Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch
Living Fossils
Horseshoe Crabs
Mangrove horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda)
Indian horseshoe crab (Tachypleus gigas)
Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus)
American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)
- Volunteer with the program
- Report sightings of horseshoe crabs on iNaturalist
- Report a tagged horseshoe crab
- Flip horseshoe crabs over to prevent them from drying out
- Support efforts of coastal restoration
Florida horseshoe crab watch program
- Serve as bait
- Blood serves as a clotting agent, tests for bacteria and pathogens
- The three Asian species are listed as critically endangered
- Not enough data to estimate population size or status of the populations in Florida
- Depend on intertidal beaches for spawning (Reproduction)
- Highly susceptible to shoreline erosion, shoreline armoring, and development
4 Species
Importance