Assertion: american horseshoe crab | /r/HasProperty | limulus polyphemus
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text: Since the 1970’s the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) have been harvested in substantial numbers for bait in the American eel and conch fisheries.
text: The American Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of only four remaining species of horseshoe crabs left worldwide.
text: The Delaware Bay region is home to the largest population of the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), which is found along the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to the Yucatan.
text: The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is a valuable keystone species distributed across the Atlantic Coast of the United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Botton and Haskin, 1984; Botton and Ropes, 1989; Walls et al., 2002; Botton, 2009; Sekiguchi and Shuster, 2009).
text: According to www.beach-net.com, the Delaware Bay region is home to the “largest population of the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), which is found along the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to the Yucatan.
text: Meet the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus); don’t be fooled, it is neither a horse, nor a crab, but a close relative of spiders and scorpions (class: arachnids) .
text: For millions of years the American horseshoe crab, Limulus Polyphemus, has been coming ashore to lay their eggs on the beaches of these Bays, in a spectacular annual mating migration.