Palaemon varians

Palaemon varians
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Palaemon
Species: P. varians
Binomial name
Palaemon varians
(Leach, 1814)

Palaemonetes varians, known as the common ditch shrimp, river shrimp or Atlantic ditch shrimp, is a shrimp found from the Baltic Sea and the British Isles to the western Mediterranean Sea.[1] It reaches up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in length and is never found in fully marine conditions, instead living in brackish water.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Matthijs van Couwelaar. "Palaemonetes varians". Zooplankton and Micronekton of the North Sea. Marine Species Identification Portal. ISBN 90-75000-56-1. Retrieved July 29, 2012.


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