#4448 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Brown Shrimp
🇳🇱 Gewone garnaal ·Crangon crangon
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what is it?
Crangon crangon is a commercially important species of caridean shrimp fished mainly in the southern North Sea, although also found in the Irish Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea, as well as off much of Scandinavia and parts of Morocco's Atlantic coast. Its common names include brown shrimp , common shrimp , bay shrimp , and sand shrimp , while translation of its French name crevette grise (or its Dutch equivalent grijze garnaal ) sometimes leads to the English...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 214 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #13 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 1,566 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brown Shrimp
- Nederlands
- Gewone garnaal
- scientific name
- Crangon crangon
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Crangonidae
- sightings in NL
- 214
- sightings in Europe
- 1,330
- sightings worldwide
- 1,566
- GBIF records in NL
- 181,491
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 118851, Wikidata Q27765, GBIF 2222188, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.