Mangrove horseshoe crab
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| phylum | Arthropoda | The mangrove horseshoe crab, also known as the round-tailed horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a chelicerate arthropod found in tropical marine and brackish waters of India, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia.
Mangrove horseshoe crabs are selective benthic feeders, feeding mainly on insect larvae, small fish, oligochaetes, small crabs and thin-shelled bivalves. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Xiphosura |
| Class | Merostomata | |
| order | Xiphosura | |
| family | Limulidae | |
| genus | Carcinoscorpius | |
| species | C. rotundicauda |
