Crangon crangon

Tags: Crustacean.

Crangon crangon is a commercially important species of caridean shrimp fished mainly in the southern North Sea although also found in the Irish Sea Baltic Sea Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea as well as off much of Scandinavia and parts of Morocco’s Atlantic coast. Its common names include brown shrimp common shrimp bay shrimp and sand shrimp while translation of its French name crevette grise (or its Dutch equivalent grijze garnaal) sometimes leads to the English version grey shrimp.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae

class

Malacostraca

family

Crangonidae

genus

Crangon

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda, Caridea

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Astacus crangon (Linnaeus 1758), *Cancer crangon (Linnaeus 1758), *Crago vulgaris (Fabricius 1798), *Crangon maculatus (Marcusen 1867), *Crangon maculosa (Rathke 1837), *Crangon rubropunctatus (Risso 1816), *Crangon vulgaris (Fabricius 1798), *Steiracrangon orientalis (Czerniavsky 1884)