Nesting biology of the horseshoe crab, tachypleus gigas (muller, 1785) in relation to changing environmental settings at pantai Balok and Tanjung Selangor, Pahang

Abstract

Despite the presence of Tachypleus gigas, T. tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda in Malaysian waters for ages, the available scientific literature on their population dynamics, breeding biology and nesting behaviour still remains limited. This includes the documentation at their breeding grounds, Pantai Balok and Tanjung Selangor, present on east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Long-term investigations were carried out at both places in two Phases, 1 (2009-2010) and 2 (2010-2011). However an additional, Phase-3 (2012-2013), was only included for Pantai Balok.