Tachypleus is a genus of south, southeast and east Asian horseshoe crabs in the family Limulidae.

Species

There are two extant (living) species:

• Tachypleus gigas (Müller, 1785)

• Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819)

And two extinct species only known from fossil.

• Tachypleus decheni (Zinken, 1862) Upper Eocene Domsen Sands, Germany

• Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward, 1879) Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Haqel and Hjoula Konservat-Lagerstatten, Lebanon

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