Tachypleus
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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.
- Tachypleus decheni (Zinken, 1862) Upper Eocene Domsen Sands, Germany
- Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward, 1879) Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Haqel and Hjoula Konservat-Lagerstatten, Lebanon
External links
- Media related to Tachypleus at Wikimedia Commons