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KingFish has plenty of outdoor space for diners to enjoy the Ohio River at their River Rd. location in Louisville, KY. Feb. 14, 2023 ... sauteed mussels and a colossal lump crab tower to King Crab ...
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WHAT: This locally owned and operated seafood restaurant since 1948 offers a variety of seafood including fish, shrimp, crab cakes, scallops, clams, frog legs, tilapia, cod, scrod, salmon and more.
Atlantic horseshoe crab on the shore at Brighton Beach, New York City. The Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a kind of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod. [1] It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast of North America. [1]
The smallest species is the mangrove horseshoe crab (C. rotundicauda) and the largest is the tri-spine horseshoe crab (T. tridentatus). [ 44 ] On average, males of C. rotundicauda are about 30 centimeters (12 inches) long, including a telson that is about 15 cm (6 in), and a carapace about 15 cm (6 in) wide. [ 45 ]
The tri-spine horseshoe crab is the largest of the living horseshoe crab species. [8] Like the other species, females grow larger than males. The largest females of the tri-spine horseshoe crab can be as much as 79.5 cm (31.3 in) long, including their tail. [9]
With fewer horseshoe crab eggs on beaches, bird species like the endangered red knot populations have declined by 84% since the 1980s.
Merostomata is a class of chelicerate arthropods that contains the extinct Eurypterida (sea scorpions) and the extant Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs). The term was originally used by James Dwight Dana to refer to Xiphosura only, but was emended by Henry Woodward to cover both groups.