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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