Horseshoe Crab Facts: NOT true CRABS | Animal Fact Files
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The horseshoe crab is known
The horseshoe crab is known as a crab, but a horseshoe crab is not a real crab! These animals are also extremely beneficial and have probably saved your life!! Learn more horseshoe crab facts on this episode of Animal Fact FIles!
Scientific Name: Family - Limulidae
Range: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
Habitat: Coastal waters
Size: Two feet (60.96cm)
Diet: Worms, molluscs, and dead fish
Threats: Shorebirds, crustaceans, and fish as juveniles; Raccoons, foxes, sea turtles, alligators, and humans as adults
Life span: About 20 years
EDIT: at 3:08 we mentioned there isn't an alternative to LAL however this article discusses an alternative that is available but not widely used: "In 2016, a synthetic alternative to crab lysate, recombinant factor C (rFC), was approved as an alternative in Europe, and a handful of U.S. drug companies also began using it." - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
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Image and Video Credits:
Eric Heupel - Horseshoe Crab and Juvenile Black Sea...
Mike Rafferty - Horseshoe Crab
SuperInactive - Horseshoe crab at belle isle marsh
Wide Angle - A Strange sea animal seen in Philippi...
dawn dexter - Horseshoe crab - Rescued!
Rusty Clark - Horseshoe crab - Rescued!
Eli Christman - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gammama...
Cameron McCormick - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2100337...
H Dragon - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hllewel...
Bernard DUPONT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernied...
NOAA Photo Library - https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaapho...
Dallas Krentzel - https://www.flickr.com/photos/3186795...
Kyle Hartshorn - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kylehar...
Angel Schatz - https://www.flickr.com/photos/4475796...
'villian - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2711391...
Jennifer - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jenileg...
Amada44 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrov...
Research Credits:
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resou...
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fie...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/h...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/hor...
Lamerato, A. 2001. "Limulus polyphemus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed June 03, 2018 at http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/L...
http://eol.org/pages/393278/overview
https://books.google.com/books?id=04I...
https://books.google.com/books?id=k4y...
http://www.horseshoecrab.org/nh/speci...
https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/dna/organis...
https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/bio...
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/11...
http://www.sacredheart.edu/academics/...
https://tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/news...
https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conserv...
http://www.asmfc.org/species/horsesho...
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#horseshoecrab
#crabfacts
Scientific Name: Family - Limulidae
Range: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
Habitat: Coastal waters
Size: Two feet (60.96cm)
Diet: Worms, molluscs, and dead fish
Threats: Shorebirds, crustaceans, and fish as juveniles; Raccoons, foxes, sea turtles, alligators, and humans as adults
Life span: About 20 years
EDIT: at 3:08 we mentioned there isn't an alternative to LAL however this article discusses an alternative that is available but not widely used: "In 2016, a synthetic alternative to crab lysate, recombinant factor C (rFC), was approved as an alternative in Europe, and a handful of U.S. drug companies also began using it." - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
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Image and Video Credits:
Eric Heupel - Horseshoe Crab and Juvenile Black Sea...
Mike Rafferty - Horseshoe Crab
SuperInactive - Horseshoe crab at belle isle marsh
Wide Angle - A Strange sea animal seen in Philippi...
dawn dexter - Horseshoe crab - Rescued!
Rusty Clark - Horseshoe crab - Rescued!
Eli Christman - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gammama...
Cameron McCormick - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2100337...
H Dragon - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hllewel...
Bernard DUPONT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernied...
NOAA Photo Library - https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaapho...
Dallas Krentzel - https://www.flickr.com/photos/3186795...
Kyle Hartshorn - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kylehar...
Angel Schatz - https://www.flickr.com/photos/4475796...
'villian - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2711391...
Jennifer - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jenileg...
Amada44 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrov...
Research Credits:
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resou...
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fie...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/h...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/hor...
Lamerato, A. 2001. "Limulus polyphemus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed June 03, 2018 at http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/L...
http://eol.org/pages/393278/overview
https://books.google.com/books?id=04I...
https://books.google.com/books?id=k4y...
http://www.horseshoecrab.org/nh/speci...
https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/dna/organis...
https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/bio...
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/11...
http://www.sacredheart.edu/academics/...
https://tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/news...
https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conserv...
http://www.asmfc.org/species/horsesho...
#animalfactfiles
#horseshoecrab
#crabfacts
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