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Preparing shrimp for consumption usually involves removing the head, shell, tail, and "sand vein". A notable exception is drunken shrimp, a dish using freshwater shrimp that is often eaten alive, but immersed in ethanol to make consumption easier. [11] To shell a shrimp, the tail is held while gently removing the shell around the body.
Freshwater shrimp are any shrimp which live in fresh water. This includes: Any Caridea (shrimp) which live in fresh water, especially the family Atyidae; Species in the genus Macrobrachium; Macrobrachium ohione, the Ohio River shrimp; Macrobrachium carcinus, sometimes called the American giant freshwater prawn
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.
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. [1] [3] It is the largest known species of Neotropical freshwater prawn, growing up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long and weighing as much as 850 grams (30 oz), [4] although even larger specimens have been reported. [5]
Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region, from India to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia . [ 3 ]
Palaemonetes paludosus, commonly known as ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, and eastern grass shrimp, [2] [3] is a species of freshwater shrimp from the southeastern United States. [4] They can be considered a keystone species based on the services they provide to their habitat. [2] They are also popular in the domestic aquarium business. [5]
The other three superfamilies also live in freshwater (Darwinuloidea is exclusively non-marine). [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Of these three, only Cypridoidea have freshwater species able to swim. [ 37 ] Representatives living in terrestrial habitats are also found in all three freshwater groups, [ 38 ] such as genus Mesocypris which is known from ...
This decapod is commonly known as California freshwater shrimp, and is the only extant decapod shrimp in California that occurs in non-saline waters (its congener Syncaris pasadenae from the basin of the Los Angeles River is extinct). [6] [7] S. pacifica is one of only four members of the family Atyidae in North America. [7]