Fun fact: horseshoe crabs are not only not crabs (infraorder Brachyura), not only are they not decapods (order Decapoda), and not only are they not class Malacostraca, they’re not even crustaceans (subphylum Crustacea).
Instead, they’re in the subphylum Chelicerata, making them more closely related to a tarantula, a daddy longlegs, and a tick than they are to any crab.
My favorite horseshoe fact is that they have nine eyes, of all different types. And that’s not even counting the tail which is itself covered with photoreceptive cells - so it’s essentially a tenth eye.
Fun fact: horseshoe crabs are not only not crabs (infraorder Brachyura), not only are they not decapods (order Decapoda), and not only are they not class Malacostraca, they’re not even crustaceans (subphylum Crustacea).
Instead, they’re in the subphylum Chelicerata, making them more closely related to a tarantula, a daddy longlegs, and a tick than they are to any crab.
They are part horse though, right?
Actually, part shoe.
And like many a shoe, has 10 eye-let
My favorite horseshoe fact is that they have nine eyes, of all different types. And that’s not even counting the tail which is itself covered with photoreceptive cells - so it’s essentially a tenth eye.
be not afraid
Well that checks out, considering they are more terrifyingly stranger then any other crab.