Readings

Life History and General Information

Barash, Leah, and Fred Bavendam. 1993. "Mass Appeal." National Wildlife, June-July, 31(4): 14-20.
The annual massing of horseshoe crabs and birds on the shores of New Jersey and Delaware.

"Diving for Horseshoe Crabs." 1987. World Magazine, May, 20-23.

Donavel, Daniel, and Andrew Martinez. 1996. "Bringing Up Baby: For Some Marine Creatures, Reproducing and Raising Young Is a Complex Affair." Wildlife Conservation, July-August, 99(4): 50-56.
Reproduction and egg development in horseshoe crabs.

Grant, Dave. "Living on Limulus." Underwater Naturalist 24(2): 13-21.
Description of common marine organisms found on horseshoe crab carapaces.

Hall, William, Jr., and Carl N. Shuster, Jr. 2003. "Horseshoe Crab: A Creature That Crawled Out of the Past." Marine Advisory Service Bulletin. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program.

Horton, Tom. 1996. "Baiting the blue bloods." Audubon, May-June, 98(3): 76-82.
Delaware Bay horseshoe crabs.

Rudloe, Anne, and Jack Rudloe. 1981. "The Changeless Horseshoe Crab." National Geographic Magazine, April, 562-572.

Shuster, Carl N., Robert B. Barlow, and H. Jane Brackmann. The American Horseshoe Crab. 2003. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01159-7

Water, John. 1970. The Crab from Yesterday: The Life-Cycle of a Horseshoe Crab. New York: W. T. Mars Publication.