Prawn, Common Prawn

Palaemon serratus (Pennant)

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North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

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Family Palaemonidae

Portuguese: Camarão branco
Spanish: Camarón, Gamba
French: Crevette rose, Bouquet
Dutch: Steurgarnaal
German: Sägegarnele
Swedish: Tångräka
Norwegian: Strandreke
Danish: Roskildereje
Other: Corgimwch (Welsh)

REMARKS Maximum length 10 cm, market length from 7 or 8 cm. Alive, these prawns are almost colourless; after being cooked, a fine orange-red.

This is a prawn of inshore waters. It walks forward, searching for food: looking with its stalked eyes, feeling with its antennae and sweeping the bottom with its second pair of legs. If disturbed, it will shoot backwards by a rapid flexing and straightening of its abdomen. It has an extensive range, from Norway to the Mediterranean.

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