#xiphosura

[life-on-our-planet]

horseshoe crab walking on the beach ©

#horseshoe crab #beach #arthropoda #limulidae #xiphosura #request

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Arthropods

Xiphosura. This order is made up of horseshoe crabs, marine arthropods whose bodies are covered by a hard carapace. They mainly feed on worms and molluscs on the ocean floor. The blood of some species is harvested for LAL, which is used to detect and quantify bacterial toxins

Diplopoda. This order is made up of millipedes, elongated many-legged detritivores which feed on dead plant matter, though some species eat fungi or drink plant fluid.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #horseshoe crabs #arthropods #ecdytes #millipedes #Xiphosura #Diplopoda #0x2dv0x52 #insects #(not actually insects i'm just tagging that for trigger purposes)

[xiphosuras]

Sword and Dagger

#horseshoe crab #xiphosura #arthropod #animal art #animal illustration #colour pencil #black and white #lineart #animals

[notlikeothergirlz]

thinking about her

#horseshoe crab #coquette #coquette aesthetic #bow tie #kawaii #xiphosura #limulus #arthropods #invertebrates

[art-by-kvx]

Sketches for an unfinished set of playing cards. I’d like to go back one day and finish them, at least the face cards.

You do not have permission to repost, edit, alter, or claim my work as your own!

#art by kvx #kvx #arthropods #horseshoe crab #tarantula #pillbug #pill bug #roly poly #armadillidiidae #limulidae #xiphosura #theraphosidae #poecilotheria metallica #playing cards #sketch #traditional art #artists on tumblr #biology art #insect art

[planet4546b]

what about when you did opinion bingo for drifter my friend drifter.

handshake emoji OUR friend drifter. i love that guy

his big ol furry pauldrons and sick coat and his fun boots look SO good gotta be top 3 fits in the tower. i think people are universally just sorta weird about him hes truly Just Some Guy and sure hes done some fucked up stuff but truly i dont think hes all that bad of a guy so what if he used the darkness to summon taken in gambit or whatever who ISNT using darkness these days!!!! hes fine!!!!! hes also a fun exploration of what a guardian is and isnt in a way that for SURE could be elaborated on more. also i think about orin and drifter so much i am so compelled by that part of his story hes like fine on his own sure but WHUF. orin...........

#asks #xiphosura #i <3 gambit and i <3 hanging out with this just sorta weird guy. i like him

[macabrecabra]

A science bird for @xiphosuras for Art Fight ! Loved Noche's design and reading her bio, of course had to have her reading a genetics book!

#Art Fight 2023 #NOT my OC #Xiphosuras's OC #bird anthro #anthro art #cute little bird scientist!

[rachelsquill]

For the character thingie: Olivia + expression 1D and the kermit palette :)

I ended up drawing her w her sister Sophia hope thats ok!!!! they r sillies :3

#ask #xiphosuras #rachels art tag #oc art #ocs

[dire-vulture]

Heyyy happy birthday! Getting close to that big three-oh!

thank you!! i sure am haha gfdsg

#not fr #gif #asks #xiphosuras

[reallypheelingit]

drawing for @ophionyx of Jupiter, a powerful and fierce lightning Ridgeback!

#frfanart #fr art #flight rising #fr ridgeback #ridgeback #anthro #juptier #ophionyx #xiphosuras #pheel art

[guardsbian]

5 for Seer, 30 for Ukemochi!

Seer —

5. On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Generally, Seer is always exceptionally prepared- he's never short on pockets, partially because when it comes to actually smithing it's easier to have all his supplies be accessible, but also because it suits his style and sensibilities. Absolutely imperative to carry is his cane, a staple of navigation in Lantern's Light for blind dragons like himself and sighted dragons alike, and a constant collect of rings and coins for any trading he might need to do. Though he's not especially confident in combat, a knife is usually a safe bet too, but he'd rather travel with a friend or boyfriend who's better versed than himself.

Otherwise, extremely simple rations, a box of matches, a bit of cording, a roll of bandages, and a limited multitool make for quite the prepared dragon. Some may call it overkill, but one never knows who they may need to help in the streets of Lantern's Light, and Seer would rather be safe than sorry.

Ukemochi —

30. What does your character find repulsive or disgusting?

In terms of purely physical things (as in, not moral, because that feels too elaborate to describe aside from the obvious things she'd find repulsive), Ukemochi has a fairly high tolerance for general filth and decay, though she still prefers to avoid it when unnecessary. Even carcasses and the rot they invite is largely innocuous to her, considering how closely she's had to work with it in cultivating her magic.

However, the same insensitivity has never carried over to draconic or beastly bodies. She's unsettled even without bloodshed, finding herself deeply uncomfortable with any body that could look alive, but especially can't bring herself to look at noticeably wounded or rotted corpses. She supposes it might be that she can almost feel life draining from a body- even if it's too late by the time she sees it, there's just a terrible, familiar emptiness that's nothing short of gut-wrenching to feel in combination with something that once had so much intelligent life and magic within it.

Some might criticize her for having such a visceral reaction in a Flight that's built around the necessity of death, or even call her a hypocrite for using death to fuel her magic in one area while feeling repulsed by it in another. But it's not as if Ukemochi has always been the ideal Plague dragon, anyways.

#thank you!! sorry I took one million years to get to this one #Ask #Xiphosuras #Ophionyx #Drakefr #Seer #Ukemochi #Fr

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Xiphosura, watercolor and ink on paper by nickbleb

#art #painting #animals #illustration #watecolor #horseshoe crab

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Arthropods

Araneae. This order is made up of spiders, eight-limbed arthropods with fangs generally able to inject venom and spinnerets that extrude silk.

Xiphosura. This order is made up of horseshoe crabs, marine arthropods whose bodies are covered by a hard carapace. They mainly feed on worms and molluscs on the ocean floor. The blood of some species is harvested for LAL, which is used to detect and quantify bacterial toxins

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #spiders #arthropods #arachnids #ecdytes #horseshoe crabs #Araneae #Xiphosura #0x11v0x2e

[xiphosuras]

Went on a little zoo trip, I found the horseshoe crab! Apparently they only have two of them at the moment and they live in this muddy floodplane with a whole lot of fiddler crabs and little fish, so I’m happy I spotted the one. Couldn’t really view it from a different angle so I just drew it a couple of times with different pens and pencils.

The spot on its carapace was a yellow marking to tell the horseshoe crabs apart, cute little detail :)

#horseshoe crab #xiphosura #life drawing #animal sketches #horseshoe crabs #animals #sketches

[staff]

tumblr tuesday: horseshoe crab appreciation

Hi, yes, hello. This is a horseshoe crab appreciation post. Have some horseshoe crabs. Why? We just think they're neat. And so do you, apparently.

@its-a-beautful-day: 

@infinitebrians:

@arthur-bn​:

@xiphosuras:

@creaturebuilder:

@meeks-just-wants-to-scroll​:

@lil-tachyon​:

@watermelon-sheriff​:

@surferofrowdybliss:

@hoot-alex​:

@thisdastampdoesnotexist​:

#tumblr tuesday #horseshoe crab appreciation #technically not a crab #cw bugs #i guess? #long post #many legs

[crevicedwelling]

taxonomic nightmare but may i request a chelicerate order ranking

sticking with extant ones, here.

Amblypygi - S

my little tree flatcrab spindle angels. maybe other arachnids have chemically interesting venom or are more colorful (amblys can do gray!! and sometimes brown) but amblys are really just suited to my tastes. long-living with both sexes having indeterminate growth, spiny, fast, nonvenomous, arboreal/scansorial, curiously social, and they just look great.

Alfonso says hi.

Thelyphonida & Schizomida — Uropygi? - A

great bugs for most of the reasons shared with above, being fairly closely related to amblys. vinegaroons are the tanks of the tetrapulmonates, built to burrow and clobber things with their freakishly muscular pedipalps. schizomids are very funny guys that deserve better. each group took “ain’t broke, don’t fix” even more literally than the amblypygi and truly all look identical; if you hid arachnologists’ microscopes there’d be a crisis.

Solifugae - A

fast, furious, fluffy: I love these little (and not-so-little) freaks. again, doing it all without venom, their crazy snipping chelicerae are some of my favorite insect anatomy. plus, they’re bizarrely diverse, from the mouth-on-legs of the rhagodids to the classic camel spider look and then there’s the hexisopodids that look like angry fur pillows.

Opiliones - A

there’s so much more to these than the ball-on-sticks (though that’s iconic!) that I used to think they all were. ornate armor and parental care (paternal, in some cases!) from the Laniatores, spindly guys abound, alien drone robots from Dyspnoi (Trogulus), and then whatever pudgy little Siro has got going on. possibly the most creative use of pedipalps, with funky lobster claws, bear trap spike-hell, “spoons?” (cosmetids), pinchy bits, glue traps, and spare leg all represented.

Araneae - B

sure. spiders are cool. everyone knows what a spider is. points for diversity, points for bizarre forms, yeah yeah. can we go home now? also, webs are cheating.

if it was only Liphistius, they’d get an A.

Ricinulei - ????

mysterious. elusive. built like a baked bean. what are they even doing? we don’t know. pay researchers more

Pseudoscorpiones - B

great bunch of little guys! phoresy is fun, and so are venomous crabby pedipalps. they have the best element of surprise—never know where you’ll find them next. in a book? under bark? in a beetle? lots of points for weird social lifestyles in certain species and associated chemical mimicry, plus all the wacky insular species and host specialists.

Scorpiones - C

they’re like pseudoscorpions, only less so. cute in a very dopey way. learning that a scorpion’s anus is at the tip of the tail ruined them for me forever.

Palpigradi - D

adorable but they’re not really doing anything let’s be honest. and I love them for that. you do you little eyeless guys I’m sure I’ll find you someday in the dirt

Acari/Parasitiformes - S

aha! I bet you thought I’d rank them poorly, but no, mites are the best arachnids (though not my personal favorites). if you disagree with that, it probably means you don’t know enough about them. mites can do anything and you are a fool if you doubt them.

yes, this includes ticks. ticks are cool and if you have an issue with this—sounds like a vertebrate problem

~~~~~under the water~~~~~

Xiphosura - C

overrated. great, and I love them, but just slightly overrated. stop stealing their blood pls

class Pycgnogonida - ????

Huh? What?

What? I don’t know. Maybe.

#creature rankings