Limulus: Horse Shoe Crab
- Limulus belongs to the class Archnida and is the ancient marine living fossils that remained nearly unchanged for millions of years.
- It is commonly known as King Crab or Horseshoe crab.
- Despite the nature of this ancient creature, horseshoe crab, they are not crabs but rather marine arthropods.
- Since their body has a hard exoskeleton and resembles the horse foot, they are named so, “Horseshoe crabs”.
- It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast.
- A protein in its blood called Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL) is also used by biomedical industries.
- LAL is used to test for sterilization of medical equipment ....
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