Green Shrimp Scampi is good Green Shrimp Scampi tastes fresher than Red Shrimp Scampi and does not have an earthy odor. So green shrimp is better than red shrimp. Red shrimp when fresh because of the red skin is called red shrimp, red shrimp meat elastic, but eat a bit of earth smell, taste is not very fresh, but also easy to long-distance transportation, the mortality rate is generally not higher than 7%. Green shrimp is the skin color green and white, so called green shrimp, taste than red shrimp fresh. No earth odor. Size is much larger than the red shrimp. Green shrimp meat is more tender, soft shell, but not easy to long-distance transportation, mortality rate is relatively high compared to red shrimp. The price difference between the two is a lot. Green shrimp and red shrimp difference: different distribution range, different morphological characteristics 1, different distribution range: red shrimp: widely distributed in India - Western Pacific region, China's coasts and lakes are produced. Green shrimp: almost in all parts of the country are distributed, including the Baiyangdian area in Hebei, Jiangsu Taihu Lake area produced by the most famous 2, different morphological characteristics: red shrimp: frontal horn developed, the base of its a crown with a toothed bulge, and its front is smooth and toothless. The end often has additional teeth. Cephalothorax with a tentacle spines and a gill nail spines, in the gill nail spines above a clear gill nail groove. Jaw tentacles 3 sections. Green shrimp: green shrimp body is divided into cephalothorax and abdomen, the carapace in the cephalothorax called cephalothorax armor, the body consists of 20 sections, the head of 5 sections, 8 sections of the thorax, cephalothorax body segments have been healed, *** with the evolution of the cephalothorax into the various organs and body segments.