''Palaemon modestus'', the Siberian prawn, is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...
shrimp
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from eastern Asia.
A revision to ''
Palaemon'' in 2013 moved ''Palaemon modestus'' to the ''Palaemon'' genus from the ''
Exopalaemon'' genus.
References
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Palaemonidae
Crustaceans described in 1862
Taxa named by Camill Heller