“…Major anthropogenic threats are highlighted, with the aim of illustrating the key directions needed to conserve the unique mangrove horseshoe crab in the Indian Sundarbans. [Naugolnykh, 2018;Bicknell, 2019c;Bicknell, Pates, 2020a;, there are only four extant horseshoe crabs species. These are the American horseshoe crab -Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758), a species found along the eastern North America coast -and the three species restricted to Indo-Pacific region: Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819), T. gigas (Müller, 1785), and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (Latreille, 1802) [Shuster Jr., 1982].…”