Carpenter Prawn

Palaemon serrifer

• Group: Shrimp

This slender estuary prawn lives on hard subtidal bottoms and sometimes finds itself stranded in tide pools as the water drops. Nearly transparent, it picks over the bottom for small scraps and detritus.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Palaemonidae › Palaemon

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 514465.