Why Limulus is called living fossil? How does excretion and respiration occur in it? Give its well-labelled diagram.
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Why Limulus is called living fossil? How does excretion and respiration occur in it? Give its well-labelled diagram.
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Limulus (the king crab or horse-shoe crab) continues to
remain unchanged for past 190 million years. It is
therefore, also called living fossil. Excretion occurs
through four pairs of coxal glands. Respiration occurs
through book gills. For diagram refer to fig. 4.11 (f).