Kingdom Animalia Class Malacostraca Family Palaemonidae Genus Palaemon Order Decapoda | Subphylum Crustacea Infraorder Caridea Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Palaemon, Decapoda, Palaemonetes, Grass Prawn, Palaemon serratus | ||
Palaemon varians schwimmgarnele
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. It reaches up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in length and is never found in fully marine conditions, instead living in brackish water.
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