Kinds of Horseshoe Crabs
                                                                              photo permission by Hiroaki Sugita
      There are four kinds of horseshoe crabs in the world.  Three kinds of them live along the shores of the East Indies and South East Asia.  TheTachpleus gigas lives from Singapore to the Torres Straits between New Guinea and Australia.  Another kind, Tachpleus tridentatus, known as the Japanese horseshoe lives around the Sea of Japan and the South China Sea.  Third, the Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda lives along the coasts of Burma past Singapore and the Philippine Island to Japan and the adjacent shores of China.  Last but not least is the Limulus polyphemus.  It lives on the east coast of North America from the Gulf of Mexico to Maine.  More live in Delaware Bay than any other place in the world.

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