Orchard beach, mating season begins
Waves knocked it up on shore, upside down. I returned it right side up, and it scuttled back from whence it came. Only one seen. An early breeder?
9:17pm
when sun was almost set they started to move ashore
Merostomata is a class of marine Chelicerata which includes horseshoe crabs and eurypterids. It includes only four living species but dozens of fossil species mainly from the Paleozoic. Some favor the abandonment of the term class Merostomata, in favour of splitting the class into two classes, Xiphosura and Eurypterida. This is because Merostomata is thought to be paraphyletic, with the Eurypterida more closely related to the Arachnida, forming the group Metastomata (Weygoldt & Paulus 1979) or...
