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Genus of horseshoe crab relatives From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tachypleus is a genus of south, southeast and east Asian horseshoe crabs in the family Limulidae.
| Tachypleus Temporal range: | |
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| Tachypleus tridentatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | Xiphosura |
| Family: | Limulidae |
| Genus: | Tachypleus (Leach, 1819) |
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There are two extant (living) species:
And two extinct species only known from fossil.[1]
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