Correcting a 135-year error: Limulidae Leach, 1819 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) is the proper authority,...
Correcting a 135-year error: Limulidae Leach, 1819 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) is the proper authority, not Limulidae Zittel, 1885
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New York, USA: The Paleontological Society
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New York, USA: The Paleontological Society
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The horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a famous species, renowned as a ‘living fossil’ (Owen, 1873; Barthel, 1974; Kin and Błażejowski, 2014) for its apparently little-changed morphology for many millions of years. The genus Limulus Müller, 1785 was used by Leach (1819, p. 536) as the basis of a new family Limulidae and synonymiz...
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Correcting a 135-year error: Limulidae Leach, 1819 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) is the proper authority, not Limulidae Zittel, 1885
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2539494025
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2539494025
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0022-3360
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1937-2337
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10.1017/jpa.2021.23
