Books on horseshoe crabs
Extraordinary Horseshoe Crabs
by Julie Dunlap, 1999, Hardcover, 48 pages, Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, Language: English, ISBN: 1575052938
Description. This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, life cycle, and conservation of horseshoe crabs.
Biology of Horseshoe Crabs
by Koichi Sekiguchi, 1988, Hardcover, Language: English, ISBN: 4915572250
Description. Probably the best general book on horseshoe crabs.
The American Horseshoe Crab
by Carl N Shuster, Jr, Rpbert B. Barlow and H. Jane Brockmann, 2004, Hardcover, 472 pages, Publisher: Harvard University Press, Language: English, ISBN: 0674011597
Description. A cornerstone publication on horseshoe crabs. It covers basic biology, physiology and ecology of this interesting species.
The Secret in the Blue Blood
by Tom Mikkelsen, 1988, Hardcover, 140 pages, Publisher: Science Press, Language: English, ISBN: 7030002229
Description. A impressive book about the evolution, biology, ecology and distribution as well as a in depth description of the use of the blue blood of the horseshoe crab in detecting bacteria.
The Crab from yesterday. The life-cycle of a horseshoe crab
by John F. Waters, Illustrated by W. T. Mars 1970,
Description. An easy to read children's book about Horse shoe crabs.
Living Fossils
by Eldredge N and Stanley SM, 2001, Springer Verlag, New York.
Internet links on horseshoe crabs
http://www.horseshoecrab.org/
