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Horseshoe crab distribution records from East America and Asia Citable as data publication Vestbo, Stine; Obst, Matthias; Quevedo Fernandez, Francisco; Intanai, Itsara; Funch, Peter; (2017): Horseshoe crab distribution records from East America and Asia. https://doi.org/10.14284/293 Contact: Obst, Matthias Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description We assembled occurrence records (presence-only) for all four horseshoe crab species in Asia and Eastern America from our own observations, collaborators, scientific networks as well as through publishing a scratchpad site at http://horseshoecrabs.myspecies.info/. For many species, numerous distribution records exist in the literature, and we manually geo-referenced additional occurrence data from these sources. more Our knowledge on global distribution of the four extant horseshoe crab species is inadequate. The aim of this study (and the associated data set) is to improve our understanding of the current biogeographic distribution of horseshoe crabs. To do this we collated all available occurrence information for all four species on the Atlantic coasts of Central and North America, and the coasts of South-East Asia. Occurrence data from the four extant species of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, Tachypleus gigas, and T. tridentatus) were compiled from recent literature, our scientific network, and own field work. The three Asian species C. rotundicauda, T. gigas and T. tridentatus were found to co-occur on the Indonesian islands Borneo and Java. Scope Themes: Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Biogeography, Climate change, Distribution shift, Ecological modelling, ANW, North West Atlantic, ASW, Mexico Gulf, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, I, Indo-Pacific, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (Latreille, 1802), Limulidae Leach, 1819, Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758), Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785), Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819) Geographical coverage ANW, North West Atlantic [Marine Regions] ASW, Mexico Gulf [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -90,39; MinLat: -7,73 - MaxLong: 134,03; MaxLat: 44,58 [WGS84] I, Indo-Pacific [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 1975 - 2015 Taxonomic coverage Parameter Presence of biota Contributors Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Publication Based on this dataset Vestbo, S. et al. (2018). Present and potential future distributions of Asian horseshoe crabs determine areas for conservation. Front. Mar. Sci. 5: 164. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00164, more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Data collection Metadatarecord created: 2017-04-10 Information last updated: 2018-06-04 | ||||
