What kind of shrimp is the spot prawn? Morphological characteristics? Distribution range in which places?

Spotted shrimp is the largest individual in the genus shrimp, also known as nine shrimp, shrimp, ghost bamboo shrimp, etc., in biological classification belongs to the biological world, arthropods, mollusks, decapods, shrimps, shrimp crustaceans, the general individual 350 to 400 grams, the larger individuals up to 500 grams, with a strong food value and economic value.

Morphological features

Spotted shrimp skin smooth, slightly thick shell, fish body color reddish brown, light brown, dark green or light green, body body with 9 white horizontal bands, forehead straight, the end of the thick, slightly curved upward, cephalothoracic armour with tentacle grooves, cervical grooves, tentacle spines, liver spines, gastric spines, the 1st to 4 pairs of footsteps with external limbs, the 5th pair of footsteps did not have external limbs, the tail joints are slightly better than the 6th section, the end of the tail is pointed, no lateral edge of the thorns.

Scope

Spotted prawns are widely distributed in Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania and North America, including China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaya, Thailand, Australia, Japan, etc., China is mainly located in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, etc., especially in the eastern part of Hainan Island, South, Southwest, and the largest production of the Qiongngnu Asia and Europe.

Habitat

Environment: Spotted prawn is a marine crustacean, adult shrimp live in the muddy or muddy-sandy deep sea, inhabiting the depth of generally within 60 meters, shrimp and juvenile shrimp in the shallow water along the coast of life, often a large number of clusters in the aquatic weeds in the middle of the weed or clinging to the weed.

Carnivorous: Spotted prawns are omnivorous, of which the key to animal food bivalves, monocrustaceans, long-tailed species, short-tailed species, rotifers, etc., small fish species, etc., and the key to plant food algae and aquatic flowers, leaves, branches, fruits, crumbs and so on.

Breeding: Spotted prawns are oviparous shellfish, dioecious, test tube baby, breeding season March to November, to July to September for the peak period, the female shrimp carrying 30 to 1.2 million eggs, water temperature 27 to 29 ℃, salinity 29 ‰ when about 20 hours to hatch into a nondisjointed larvae.

What is the difference between grass shrimp and spot prawns

From the price, spot prawns due to the growth of the environment of the provisions of the more stringent, naturally, there will be a scarcity of expensive conditions. So the price of spot prawns, there are some small expensive. In most areas, the price of spot prawns is basically in the 120 yuan a catty up and down. The price of grass shrimp, the cost-effective has long been higher, about 30 dollars can be bought.

Different appearance

Banana shrimp, there is also a nickname known as black tiger shrimp. From the appearance of the spot prawns, is to have a very obvious red and yellow lines, is also considered a major feature of the spot prawns. But grass shrimp, you can only see the grass shrimp on the horizontal texture, which is still quite general.