The American Horseshoe Crab edited by Carl N. Shuster, Jr, Robert B. Barlow and H. Jane Brockmann, Harvard University Press, £61.95/$95, ISBN 0674011597 Reviewed by Douglas Palmers
LOOK inside The American Horseshoe Crab and you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know about these living trilobite lookalikes from their much filmed shoreline mating to their historic use as fertiliser. This wonderfully illustrated and detailed compendium of information about the horseshoe or king crab is a must for anyone interested in marine arthropods both fossil and living.
