Sea shrimp, also known as red shrimp, red shrimp and blue shrimp, is the general name for the meat or the whole of aquatic products and marine shrimp. Sea shrimp is rich in nutrients, and can be used as food or medicine. It lives in the shallow sea at the bottom of sediment, is inactive in the daytime, often lurks in mud, and is very lively at night. It swims to the upper and middle layers of seawater from time to time to prey on other zooplankton, and is distributed in the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea and the sea areas north of the Yangtze River estuary.
River shrimp, also known as "green shrimp", whose scientific name is Macrobranchium nipponense, is distributed in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ponds in China. It is a high-quality freshwater shrimp with tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition. It is an aquatic food with high protein and low fat, which is quite popular among consumers.
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Although river shrimp and sea shrimp are both shrimps, their shapes are very different. There are few species of river shrimp, generally with a big head, short body and long claw feet, and a wide and flat tail. There are many species of sea shrimp, big and small, but generally with a long body and short feet and a triangular tail without claw feet. One kind of sea shrimp is similar to river shrimp, but the individual is not as big as river shrimp, and the head of cultured shrimp is bigger than that of natural shrimp.