Talk:Triops cancriformis

Not the oldest living species.
Triops cacriformis is not the oldest still extant species, for example the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus is still extant and over 445 million years old. to have the wording of the article say it is considered the oldest species is therefore a bit misleading as many would make the assumption from those words that it IS the oldest species, when it is not. I am changing wording of the article to reflect that this is one of the oldest still extant species but not the oldest. --Shearluck (talk) 13:51, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


 * The horseshoe crab known from the Ordovician is Lunataspis aurora, they are not from any extant species. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brett Dunbar (talk • contribs) 20:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Range map is incorrect and inconsistent with the text
Can anyone correct the map to include the relevant parts in the middle east and India? Yuvalr (talk) 15:06, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

sweden too — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rallekralle11 (talk • contribs) 19:58, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Bosc 1801
Reference 7 does not give the original 1801 description by Bosc. The reference given (Acta Zoologica Volume 84 Issue 4 Page 267 - October 2003) does not have this reference in its list of citations either. Philip Jewess2A00:23C5:EC86:E801:C1B0:FE63:2F8D:BCA2 (talk) 15:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC) The full reference to the original Bosc paper for which I was looking but have now found is: Bosc, LAG (1801) Histoire Naturelle Crustaces vol 2 p. 244. A translation of the description in French is: " Apus cancriforoee, Apus cancriformis. Chaperone brown, almost square, narrow; tail truncated between the two nets that terminate it. Monculus apus. Fab. — Binocle. Geoffroy, Ins. 2. pl. 21. fig. 4. Schaff. Monog. 1756, tab. 1,2 Frisch. Ins. 10. tab.1. Sulz. Ins. Tab. 24. fig. 153. Naturf. 19. tab. 3. fig.1 — 12. It Is located in the stagnant waters that surround Paris. The reference is in Longhurst [who mis-spells the name Bosch] (9) which is where I found it but not in reference (7) (Moller), which is where it was stated to be in the article.  Philip Jewess 2A00:23C5:EC86:E801:98B1:E927:28BC:3003 (talk) 20:29, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't understand. Is this what you are looking for? According to Longhurst (1955), the first officially recognized species description of Triops cancriformis was made by Bosc in 1801 under the name ‘Apus cancriformis’. Invasive Spices (talk) 5 December 2021 (UTC)