Shrimp

a small shellfish allied to the lobster, the crab, and the crayfish. Shrimps have two pairs of antennae and five pairs of legs. They fairly swarm along the sandy coasts of western Europe. The London market is supplied with large quantities taken in scoop nets at high tide. Like the lobster, shrimps turn red in boiling water. There are also fresh-water shrimps--tiny creatures closely resembling their larger salt-water relatives. A pailful of water taken from a grassy marsh almost anywhere is pretty certain to contain several transparent, active little fellows so small as barely to be seen with the naked eye. They are untiring in pursuit of still smaller creatures, and unless checked by a wire screen are likely to eat up all small forms of animal life in an aquarium. See Crayfish