This slightly different fish has a gill structure different than the structure of a shrimp’s body. Prawns are in the same animal family as lobsters and crabs. They live in calm waters, with certain species of them found in the Northern hemisphere.
Prawn is the name for acquatic crustaceans of a small size
There are 13 types of prawns
Female prawns release eggs in the hundreds of thousands
Prawns can change color based on where they are
Prawns are commonly black, pink, white or grey. When a Palaemon prawn is fully grown it is generally between six and eight inches long, or the size of a GI Joe action figure. Upon being caught, the fish is a pale blue. It has a cylindrical and elongated body. From one side to the other, the prawn’s body is compressed a little bit.
A Palaemon prawn has two parts to their bodies. One part is anterior and one is posterior. Its cephalothorax is un-jointed. This means that the prawn has six pairs of appendages, which is any part of the body that is attached to its main part. In a prawn, those parts have no joints, like what humans have in their knees to help them bend.