Horse shoe crab!

The horse shoe crab or limulus potyiphemus lives in shallow waters in brackish water. The crab has bilateral symmetry. Characteristics for this crab are, long tail, and 10 walking legs. 3 adaptations for this animal are they have a very hard shell to be safe from predators, they swim upside down to trick predators and they see in the dark. Their predators are turtles and red knots, their prey is plankton and small fish. Horse shoe crabs are heterotrophic and endothermic.

 

Domain: Eukarya

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Merostomata

Order: Xiphosura

Family: Limulidae

Genus: limulus

Species: potyphemus