Horseshoe crab
Horseshoe crabs are the closest living relatives of the extinct trilobites, and are more closely related to spiders than they are to crabs. Unusually, their blood is bright blue and it has properties that are very useful to the medical sector.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 326/2007/1
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- horseshoe crab
- Simple Name
- crustacean: crab
