Northern prawn
| Pandalus borealis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Pandalidae |
| Genus: | Pandalus |
| Species: | P. borealis |
| Binomial name | |
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Pandalus borealis Krøyer, 1838 |
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| External identifiers for Pandalus borealis | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 318602 |
| ITIS | 96967 |
| NCBI | 6703 |
| WoRMS | 107649 |
Pandalus borealis is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The FAO refers to them as the northern prawn. Other common names include coldwater prawn, pink shrimp, deepwater prawn, deep-sea prawn, great northern prawn, crevette nordique and northern shrimp.
P. borealis lives at depths of 20–1,330 m (66–4,364 ft), usually on soft muddy bottoms, in waters with a temperature of 0–8 °C (32–46 °F). The distribution of the nominate subspecies P. b. borealis in the Atlantic ranges from New England, Canada's eastern seaboard (off Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Baffin Island in Nunavut), southern and eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Norway and the North Sea as far south as the English Channel. In the Pacific, P. b. eous is found from Japan, through the Sea of Okhotsk, across the Bering Strait, and as far south in North America as Washington state.
In their 8-year lifespan, males can reach a length of 120 mm (4.7 in), while females can reach 165 mm (6.5 in) long.
The shrimp are hermaphroditic. They start out male, but after a year or two, their testicles turn to ovaries and they complete their lives as females.
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