Flower shrimp

Latin: Pandalus montagui
Size:
16 cm
Levested:
All bottom types 20 to 600 m
Distribution:
North Atlantic, Iceland and Greenland, UK.
Food:
Dead algae and animal remains (detritus)
Facts about flower shrimp

Unlike the deepwater shrimp (Pandalus borealis), the flower shrimp has beautiful pigmentation.

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