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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aren't shrimp and prawn already the exact same thing?

Like mountain lions and cougars.

[–] Fondots 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Shrimp vs prawn is colloquial, not a scientific classification, so it varies from place to place and person to person, and depending on the specific animal we're talking about, but in general

The ones we call shrimp tend to:

  • Live in salt water
  • Be smaller
  • Have curled bodies
  • Belong to the sub-order pleocytema
  • Have plate-like ~~girls~~ * gills*

And the ones we call prawns tend to:

  • Live in fresh water
  • Be larger
  • Have straight bodies
  • Helong to the sub-order dendrobranghiata
  • Have branching ~~hills~~ gills
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Fondots 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The organs that aquatic creatures use to breathe

Edit: I see now that autocorrect did me dirty