Prawn

Prawn

AKA: shrimps
Kind: Shellfish

Shrimp and prawn are types of seafood that are consumed worldwide. Although shrimp and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance and the terms are often used interchangeably in commercial farming and wild fisheries. A distinction is drawn in recent aquaculture literature, which increasingly uses the term “prawn” only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and “shrimp” for the marine penaeids.

Source: Wikipedia

Prawn
Cooked prawns
 


The Penaeoidea Family

Superfamily of prawns.


Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Arthropoda   Class: Malacostraca   Order: Decapoda