Tachypleus

<h2 id="species">Species</h2>
<p>There are two extant (living) species:
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<ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Tachypleus_gigas/24wTm3oJ">Tachypleus gigas</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Otto_Friedrich_M%C3%BCller/5MnognyI">Müller</a>, 1785)</li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Tachypleus_tridentatus/BkvjmNDK">Tachypleus tridentatus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/William_Elford_Leach/EbDT7a96">Leach</a>, 1819)</li></ul>
<p>And two extinct species only known from fossil.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<ul><li><i>Tachypleus decheni</i> (Zincken, 1862) Upper <a href="/facts/Eocene/EYgI8Uco">Eocene</a> Domsen Sands, Germany</li>
<li><i>Tachypleus syriacus</i> (Woodward, 1879) Upper Cretaceous (<a href="/facts/Cenomanian/atR50Pe7">Cenomanian</a>) Haqel and <a href="/facts/Sannine_Formation/6EkH3okw">Hjoula Konservat-Lagerstatten</a>, Lebanon</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Tachypleus at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Błażejowski, Błażej; Wings, Oliver; Hitij, Tomaž; Botton, Mark L. (2021-03-02). Zhang, Xi-Guang (ed.). "Critical re-evaluation of Limulidae uncovers limited Limulus diversity". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (3): 1525–1556. Bibcode:2021PPal....7.1525B. doi:10.1002/spp2.1352. ISSN 2056-2799. S2CID 233783546. <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1352" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1352</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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