The female prawn of marine wild prawn is called yellow whistle prawn, and the male prawn is called Macrobrachium nipponense.

There are both farmed prawns and wild prawns, and the prawns on the market mainly come from farmed prawns. Penaeus belongs to Arthropoda, Crustacea and Penaeidae. Shrimp has a large body, flat side, thin shell and smooth surface. Usually, females are bigger than males. Sea shrimp is an animal belonging to the genus shrimp. In China, it is distributed in the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea and the sea area north of the Yangtze River estuary. It lives in a shallow sea with sediments at the bottom of the sea. It is inactive during the day, often lurking in the mud, and very lively at night. From time to time, it swims to the upper and middle layers of seawater to prey on other zooplankton.