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2 unusual facts about horseshoe crab


Chandipur, Odisha

Horseshoe crab is also found here on the beach towards Mirzapur, the nearby fishing market and community at the confluence of the Budhabalanga River(Balaramgadi).

Horseshoe crab

Amebocytes from the blood of L. polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate, which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications.


Arthropod eye

The organ's development through the lineage can be estimated by comparing groups that branched early, such as the velvet worm and horseshoe crab to the advanced eye condition found in insects and other derived arthropods.

Ōmura Bay

Another special inhabitant – sometimes characterised as a living fossil – is the horseshoe crab species Tachypleus tridentatus.

Sanderling

In spring, birds migrating north from South America consume large numbers of horseshoe crab eggs in the Delaware Bay area.


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Get the Girl

While shaving along the sea shore, Andy picks up a horseshoe crab and sarcastically thanks BP, a reference to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.