Piotr Naskrecki / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) week old larvae settling on the bottom of the ocean to start feeding on small soft-bodied invertebrates, Japan
00476988
Piotr Naskrecki / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) flushing water backwards under its carapace to clear intake channels for breathing, Japan
00476979
Piotr Naskrecki / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) pair in shallow water near city, Hakata Bay, Japan
00476969
Piotr Naskrecki / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) blood which is blue due to copper-based hemocyanin and is widely used in the medical field, Japan
00780133
Albert Lleal / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) carapace, occurs along the Atlantic shore of North America
00476980
Piotr Naskrecki / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) pair in shallow water near city, Hakata Bay, Japan
00476989
Piotr Naskrecki / Japanese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) in shallow, muddy waters very close to the shore, Japan
01722390
Tony Wu / Newly hatched Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) swimming into murky nutrient-rich water column filled with frenzy of copepods (Copepoda) . Sea of Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
01689892
Tony Wu / Juvenile Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) clustering together, Japan, Pacific Ocean.
01689891
Tony Wu / Juvenile Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) juveniles, one burrowing into the substrate and the other flipped upside-down, Japan, Pacific Ocean.
01689890
Tony Wu / Newly hatched Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus), around 7mm in size, fully formed and functional, Japan, Pacific Ocean.
01689889
Tony Wu / Newly hatched Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus), around 7mm in size, fully formed and functional, Japan, Pacific Ocean.
