#4479 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Baltic prawn
🇳🇱 Roodsprietgarnaal ·Palaemon adspersus
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what is it?
Palaemon adspersus , commonly called Baltic prawn , is a species of shrimp that is frequent in the Baltic Sea, and is the subject of fisheries in Denmark. 8 in) long, and lives in Zostera beds.
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 18 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #43 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 389 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Martin Heinrich Rathke in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Baltic prawn
- Nederlands
- Roodsprietgarnaal
- scientific name
- Palaemon adspersus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Palaemonidae
- sightings in NL
- 18
- sightings in Europe
- 227
- sightings worldwide
- 389
- GBIF records in NL
- 125
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Martin Heinrich Rathke
relatives· Palaemonidae
#4455 📷 10Rockpool Prawn
🇳🇱 Gewone steurgarnaal
Palaemon elegans
👀 89 in NL
#4463 📷 10Common Prawn
🇳🇱 Gezaagde steurgarnaal
Palaemon serratus
👀 47 in NL
#4468 📷 10Oriental Shrimp
🇳🇱 Rugstreepsteurgarnaal
Palaemon macrodactylus
👀 37 in NL
#4483 📷 7Atlantic ditch shrimp
🇳🇱 Steurkrab
Palaemon varians
👀 12 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 526549, Wikidata Q585024, GBIF 2225020, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.