Horseshoe crab

Quality:

Limulidae - family of arthropods. This taxon is the 643^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 750^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Horseshoe crab” in Simple English Wikipedia has 53.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 750^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 643^rd most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Horseshoe crab”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Limulidae is on the 750^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 643^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1531 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #446 in January 2024
• Global: #6824 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1452 in August 2012
• Global: #10598 in June 2025

There are 30 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) Horseshoe crab		100
2	Dutch (nl) Degenkrabben		100
3	Malay (ms) Belangkas		90.1802
4	Tamil (ta) குதிரைலாட நண்டு		61.2753
5	Spanish (es) Limulidae		53.5121
6	Simple English (simple) Horseshoe crab		53.067
7	German (de) Pfeilschwanzkrebse		48.2295
8	French (fr) Limulidae		46.3768
9	Turkish (tr) Nal yengeci		36.6258
10	Thai (th) แมงดา		35.1742

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Horseshoe crab		9 353 995
2	German (de) Pfeilschwanzkrebse		1 319 852
3	Chinese (zh) 鱟科		1 168 333
4	French (fr) Limulidae		1 037 541
5	Thai (th) แมงดา		288 687
6	Dutch (nl) Degenkrabben		227 312
7	Indonesian (id) Belangkas		199 775
8	Spanish (es) Limulidae		160 469
9	Malay (ms) Belangkas		136 154
10	Persian (fa) خرچنگ نعل‌اسبی		111 599

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) Horseshoe crab		77 029
2	Chinese (zh) 鱟科		8 290
3	German (de) Pfeilschwanzkrebse		7 961
4	French (fr) Limulidae		5 482
5	Indonesian (id) Belangkas		2 177
6	Spanish (es) Limulidae		1 641
7	Dutch (nl) Degenkrabben		1 376
8	Italian (it) Limulidae		1 247
9	Turkish (tr) Nal yengeci		876
10	Simple English (simple) Horseshoe crab		620

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Horseshoe crab		412
2	French (fr) Limulidae		138
3	German (de) Pfeilschwanzkrebse		132
4	Chinese (zh) 鱟科		90
5	Dutch (nl) Degenkrabben		61
6	Italian (it) Limulidae		38
7	Indonesian (id) Belangkas		33
8	Danish (da) Dolkhale		27
9	Hebrew (he) סרטני פרסה		25
10	Persian (fa) خرچنگ نعل‌اسبی		23

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	English (en) Horseshoe crab		8
2	German (de) Pfeilschwanzkrebse		1
3	Hebrew (he) סרטני פרסה		1
4	Swedish (sv) Dolksvansar		1
5	Thai (th) แมงดา		1
6	Arabic (ar) سرطان حدوة الحصان		0
7	Catalan (ca) Limúlids		0
8	Danish (da) Dolkhale		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Hufumkraboj		0
10	Spanish (es) Limulidae		0

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

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