Figure 5. Limulus polyphemus Linnaeus, 1758 in Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura

Main Author: Lamsdell, James C.
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Terbitan: , 2012
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5292241
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  • Figure 5. Limulus polyphemus Linnaeus, 1758 from the Recent of North America. A, ventral view of opisthosoma showing opercula. B, dorsal view of opisthosoma with prosoma and telson removed. C, schematic of opisthosoma in dorsal view with apodemes (shallow pits indicating sites of muscle attachment) marked in black and the insertion points of the opercula shown by grey ovals. D, ventral view of opisthosoma with prosoma, telson, and opercula removed. It can be clearly seen that the opercula are not attached to the lateral regions of the opisthosoma. Scale bars = 10 mm.
  • Published as part of Lamsdell, James C., 2013, Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura, pp. 1-27 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5292231