The horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a famous species, renowned as a ‘living fossil’ (Owen, 1873; Barthel, 1974; Kin and Błażejowski, 2014) for its apparently little-changed morphology for many millions of years. The genus Limulus Müller, 1785 was used by Leach (1819, p. 536) as the basis of a new family Limulidae and synonymized it with Polyphemus Lamarck, 1801 (Lamarck's proposed but later unaccepted replacement for Limulus, as discussed by Van der Hoeven, 1838, p. 8) and Xyphotheca Gronovius, 1764 (later changed to Xiphosura Gronovius, 1764, another junior synonym of Limulus). He also included the valid modern genus Tachypleus Leach, 1819 in the family. The primary authority of Leach (1819) is widely recognized in the neontological literature (e.g., Dunlop et al., 2012; Smith et al., 2017). It is also the authority recognized in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board, 2021).

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纠正 135 年的错误：Limulidae Leach，1819 年（Chelicerata，Xiphosura）是正确的权威，而不是 Limulidae Zittel，1885 年

马蹄蟹鲎(Linnaeus, 1758) 是一个著名的物种，被称为“活化石”(Owen, 1873; Barthel, 1974; Kin 和 Błażejowski, 2014)，因为它的形态在数百万年中明显变化不大。属鲎Müller, 1785 被 Leach (1819, p. 536) 用作新的鲎科的基础，并将其同义为波吕斐摩斯拉马克，1801 年（拉马克提出但后来未被接受的替代鲎，正如范德霍文 (Van der Hoeven) 所讨论的那样，1838 年，p。8) 和Xyphotheca格罗诺维乌斯，1764 年（后来改为西磷苏拉Gronovius，1764 年，另一个初级同义词鲎）。他还包括了有效的现代属鲎利奇，1819 年在家族中。Leach (1819) 的主要权威在新生儿学文献中得到广泛认可（例如，Dunlop 等人，2012；Smith 等人，2017）。它也是世界海洋物种名录（蠕虫编辑委员会，2021）认可的权威。