Merostomata Woodward, 1866

kingdom Animalia > phylum Arthropoda > subphylum Chelicerata > class Merostomata

RankClass
Statusaccepted
Aphia IDurn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150507
NCBI ID6844
Common names horseshoe crabs, 節口
Environments marine

Child taxa

Order Xiphosurida

Statistics

Occurrence records 6,635
Species level 4,412
Absence records 0
Species 4
Taxa 7
Datasets 29
Time range 1785 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 15
Not marine 0
Marine unsure 0
No coordinates 15
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 6,641 0
decimalLatitude 15 0
decimalLongitude 15 0
eventDate 34 0
maximumDepthInMeters 2,683 863
minimumDepthInMeters 2,656 863
occurrenceStatus 2,793 0
scientificNameID 378 1

Spatial issues

Records on land 228
More than 20 km from shore 10
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 81