Freshwater Prawn

Freshwater shrimp are any shrimp which live in

fresh water Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salt (chemistry), salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include ...

. This includes: *Any

Caridea The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp, from the Greek word καρίς, καρίδος (karís, karídos, “shrimp”), are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true sh ...

(shrimp) which live in

, especially the family

Atyidae Atyidae is a family of shrimp, present in all tropical and most temperate waters of the world. Adults of this family are almost always confined to fresh water Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water conta ...

*Species in the genus ''

Macrobrachium ''Macrobrachium'' is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male. Species It contains these species: *'' Macrobrachium acanthochirus'' F. Villalobos, ...

'' :*''

Macrobrachium ohione ''Macrobrachium ohione'', commonly known as the Ohio shrimp, Ohio river shrimp or Ohio river prawn, is a species of freshwater shrimp found in rivers throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean drainage basins of North America. It is the bes ...

'', the Ohio River shrimp :*''

Macrobrachium carcinus ''Macrobrachium carcinus'' is a species of fresh water shrimp known as the big claw river shrimp. It is native to streams, rivers and creeks from Florida to southern Brazil. It is the largest known species of Neotropical freshwater shrimp, growi ...

'', sometimes called the American giant freshwater prawn :*''

Macrobrachium rosenbergii ''Macrobrachium rosenbergii'', also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of Palaemonidae, palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the I ...

'', also known as the giant river prawn, giant freshwater prawn or cherabin *Any

amphipod Amphipoda () is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphipod species cur ...

living in fresh water, especially: :*''

Gammarus pulex ''Gammarus pulex'' is a species of Amphipoda, amphipod crustacean found in fresh water across much of Europe. It is a greyish animal, growing to long. Description Adult males of ''Gammarus pulex'' may reach a total length of , while females on ...

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