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Young horseshoe crabs undergo ecdysis to grow and leave behind their old exoskeleton, or exuviae, but our knowledge of the morphology of both the exoskeleton and exuviae are scarce. This study aimed to investigate the process through a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) approach. The exuviae from the first and second ecdysis of the instars of Tachy