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
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 ...
, 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 ohione'', the Ohio River shrimp
:*''
Macrobrachium carcinus'', 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 living in fresh water, especially:
:*''
Gammarus pulex''
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