Horseshoe crab distribution records from East America and Asia

Stine Vestbo; Matthias Obst; Francisco Quevedo Fernandez; Itsara Intanai; Peter Funch

doi:10.14284/293

Horseshoe crab distribution records from East America and Asia

Citation

Vestbo, Stine; Obst, Matthias; Quevedo Fernandez, Francisco; Intanai, Itsara; Funch, Peter; (2017): Horseshoe crab distribution records from East America and Asia https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/293 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

We assembled occurrence records (presence-only) for all four horseshoe crab species in Asia and Eastern America from our own observations, collaborators, scientific networks as well as through publishing a scratchpad site at http://horseshoecrabs.myspecies.info/. For many species, numerous distribution records exist in the literature, and we manually geo-referenced additional occurrence data from these sources.

Additional info

Our knowledge on global distribution of the four extant horseshoe crab species is inadequate. The aim of this study (and the associated data set) is to improve our understanding of the current biogeographic distribution of horseshoe crabs. To do this we collated all available occurrence information for all four species on the Atlantic coasts of Central and North America, and the coasts of South-East Asia. Occurrence data from the four extant species of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, Tachypleus gigas, and T. tridentatus) were compiled from recent literature, our scientific network, and own field work. The three Asian species C. rotundicauda, T. gigas and T. tridentatus were found to co-occur on the Indonesian islands Borneo and Java.

Taxonomic Coverages

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Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda
rank: species

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Limulidae
rank: family

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Limulus polyphemus
rank: species

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Tachypleus gigas
rank: species

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Tachypleus tridentatus
rank: species

Geographic Coverages

ANW, North West Atlantic

ASW, Mexico Gulf

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

I, Indo-Pacific

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Stine Vestbo
originator
University of Aarhus; Department of Bioscience

Matthias Obst
originator
University of Gothenburg

Francisco Quevedo Fernandez
originator
Cardiff University; Cardiff School of Computer Science

Itsara Intanai
originator
Prince of Songkla University; Faculty of Science and Technology

Peter Funch
originator
University of Aarhus; Department of Bioscience

Matthias Obst
metadata author
University of Gothenburg

Matthias Obst
administrative point of contact
University of Gothenburg