Common Prawn

Palaemon Serratus (Pennant)

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By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

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Family Palaemonidae

* This name, formed from the Italian, is the general Tunisian name for prawns, but the two species fished and marketed in large quantities by the Tunisians are the two on page 176 – the latter being called little (sghir) in relation to the former, not in relation to the species shown on this page.