Palaemon adspersus

Tags: Crustacean.

Palaemon adspersus commonly called Baltic prawn is a species of shrimp that is frequent in the Baltic Sea and is the subject of fisheries in Denmark. It is up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long and lives in Zostera beds.

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binomial authority

Martin Rathke

class

Malacostraca

family

Palaemonidae

genus

Palaemon (genus)

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*, *Cancer squilla (Linnaeus 1758), *Leander brandti (Czerniavsky 1884), *Leander rectirostris tyicia (Czerniavsky 1884), *Palaemon communis (Anslijn 1826), *Palaemon fabricii (Rathke 1843), *Palaemon imbellis (Fischer 1872), *Palaemon leachii (Bell 1851), *Palaemon rectirostris (Zaddack 1944), *Palaemon rectirostris octodentatus (Neumann 1878), *Leander rectirostris transitans (Czerniavsky 1884)