Limulus polyphemus

Quality:

Atlantic horseshoe crab - species of arthropods. This taxon is the 2515^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Limulus polyphemus” in Galician Wikipedia has 37.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Galician) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2515^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Limulus polyphemus”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Galician Wikipedia and edited by 858 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Atlantic horseshoe crab is on the 2515^th place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 18 times in Galician Wikipedia and cited 406 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Galician): #4462 in June 2021
• Global: #7319 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Galician): #5175 in December 2016
• Global: #48498 in September 2016

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Atlantic horseshoe crab		94.5416
2	Ukrainian (uk) Атлантичний мечохвіст		48.5062
3	Hungarian (hu) Atlanti tőrfarkú rák		44.5785
4	Japanese (ja) アメリカカブトガニ		41.5562
5	Spanish (es) Limulus polyphemus		38.9901
6	Galician (gl) Limulus polyphemus		37.2928
7	Russian (ru) Limulus polyphemus		35.5709
8	Basque (eu) Atlantikoko ferra-karramarro		32.8727
9	Malay (ms) Belangkas Atlantik		31.2289
10	Croatian (hr) Rak bodljaš		28.0047

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Atlantic horseshoe crab		1 349 412
2	Spanish (es) Limulus polyphemus		935 369
3	Italian (it) Limulus polyphemus		610 385
4	Portuguese (pt) Límulo		290 550
5	French (fr) Limulus polyphemus		229 916
6	Swedish (sv) Dolksvans		134 481
7	Japanese (ja) アメリカカブトガニ		109 901
8	Chinese (zh) 美洲鱟		87 407
9	Czech (cs) Ostrorep americký		72 649
10	Russian (ru) Limulus polyphemus		64 285

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Atlantic horseshoe crab		9 809
2	Spanish (es) Limulus polyphemus		6 558
3	French (fr) Limulus polyphemus		3 703
4	Italian (it) Limulus polyphemus		2 736
5	Portuguese (pt) Límulo		1 354
6	Russian (ru) Limulus polyphemus		1 205
7	Japanese (ja) アメリカカブトガニ		605
8	Chinese (zh) 美洲鱟		496
9	Finnish (fi) Molukkirapu		420
10	Swedish (sv) Dolksvans		387

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Atlantic horseshoe crab		382
2	Spanish (es) Limulus polyphemus		81
3	Italian (it) Limulus polyphemus		67
4	French (fr) Limulus polyphemus		45
5	Portuguese (pt) Límulo		39
6	Swedish (sv) Dolksvans		36
7	Chinese (zh) 美洲鱟		25
8	Dutch (nl) Atlantische degenkrab		24
9	Japanese (ja) アメリカカブトガニ		20
10	Finnish (fi) Molukkirapu		19

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Atlantikoko ferra-karramarro		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Atlantik atnalı yengəci		1
3	Spanish (es) Limulus polyphemus		1
4	French (fr) Limulus polyphemus		1
5	Japanese (ja) アメリカカブトガニ		1
6	Korean (ko) 대서양투구게		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Мечоопашат рак		0
8	Catalan (ca) Límul		0
9	Czech (cs) Ostrorep americký		0
10	English (en) Atlantic horseshoe crab		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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