Biology and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs

By J. Tanacredi, M. Botton, David R. Smith. 2009

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A review on fisheries and conservation status of Asian horseshoe crabs (2018, background): “gigas from Indonesian waters to Thailand via Malaysia, with a final destination in Japan have been documented (Christianus and Saad 2009; Botton et al. 2015; Gauvry 2017).”
Horseshoe crab phylogeny and independent colonizations of fresh water: ecological invasion as a driver for morphological innovation (2016, background): “Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda Marine Tanacredi et al. (2009)”
Conservation status of the American horseshoe crab, (Limulus polyphemus): a regional assessment (2017, background): “Population sizes in México were reported to have dwindled dramatically between the 1960s and the early 1990s, especially in the Laguna de Términos area (Gómez-Aguirre 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1993).”
The Ecological Importance of Horseshoe Crabs in Estuarine and Coastal Communities: A Review and Speculative Summary (2009, background): “We are beginning to understand that juvenile horseshoe crabsmay be abundant in subtidal areas (Burton et al. 2009), where little is known about their role as predators.”