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Tachypleus tridentatus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA ARTHROPODA MEROSTOMATA XIPHOSURA LIMULIDAE

Scientific Name: Tachypleus tridentatus
Species Authority: (Leach, 1819)
Common Name/s:
English – Horseshoe Crab

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Data Deficient     ver 2.3
Year Published: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
History:
1994 – Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)
1990 – Insufficiently Known (IUCN 1990)
1988 – Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986 – Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1983 – Insufficiently Known

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
China; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Philippines; Taiwan, Province of China; Viet Nam
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine
Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Tachypleus tridentatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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