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Palaemon (genus)
Overview
Shrimp
Shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...
of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Palaemonidae
Palaemonidae
Palaemonidae is a family of crustaceans of the order Decapoda. They belong to the infraorder Caridea, which contains the true shrimp; while some freshwater palaemonid species are known as "prawns", the family belongs to the suborder Pleocyemata like all true shrimp, whereas the true prawns are...
, containing the following species:
- Palaemon adspersusPalaemon adspersusPalaemon adspersus is a species of shrimp that is frequent in the Baltic Sea, and is the subject of fisheries in Denmark. It is up to long, and lives in Zostera beds.-Description:...
Rathke, 1837 - Palaemon affinise H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
- Palaemon capensis (De Man in M. Weber, 1897)
- Palaemon carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Palaemon concinnus Dana, 1852
- Palaemon curvirostris Nguyên, 1992
- Palaemon debilis Dana, 1852
- Palaemon dolospina T.
