World List of Merostomata

doi:10.48580/dfrdl-3dr

World List of Merostomata

Citation

Boxshall, G. (2024). World List of Merostomata (version 2024-11-01). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2024-11-18). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dfrdl-3dr

Description

This global species list of Merostomata is part of the World Register of Marine Species database, which aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species globally. There are only four valid recent species of horseshoe crabs (Merostomata), but the group has an extensive fossil record not captured by WoRMS. The synonymies are mainly drawn from the annotated catalogue of the horseshoe crabs in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Dunlop, Compton & Friederichs (2012). Data have been contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the WoRMS, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).

Taxonomic Coverages

horseshoe crabs

Geographic Coverages

Global

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Geoff Boxshall
editor
email: g.boxshall@nhm.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-7734

administrative point of contact
Natural History Museum Department of Zoology
GB

administrative point of contact
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
BE

administrative point of contact
email: info@marinespecies.org