Shrimp
a popular name for any individual of the genus Crangon, allied to lobster, crayfish, and prawn. The prawn. form is elongated, tapering, and arched.
The rostrum is very short, claws small, the fixed finger being merely a small tooth, the movable finger unciform. The whole structure is delicate and subtranslucent. When alarmed they bury themselves in the sand by a peculiar motion of the telson. The common shrimp (C. vulgaris), about two inches long, greenish-gray gray dotted with brown, is esteemed as an article of food. They are usually taken by a net. Also, the Pandalus annulicornis, taken in the northern waters of Europe. When alive its color is reddishgray, with red spots. When boiled it becomes a deep red.