PPT Slide
Class Meristomata (e.g., Horeshoe crabs)
- Marine chelicerates, common off of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
- Large dorsal carapace bearing compound eyes
- Possess chelicerae, pedipalps, and 4 pair of walking legs (all but the last pair are chelate
- Abdomen terminates in a long tail called the telson; used to turn the animal right side up
- Possess a series of gill plates called book gills