Palaemon adspersus

Ostseegarnele ( Palaemon adspersus )

The Ostseegarnele ( Palaemon adspersus, Syn: Leander adspersus ) is a cancer of the genus rock shrimp ( Palaemon ) in the family of rocks and partner shrimp ( Palaemonidae ). It is of economic importance for the fisheries in the North and Baltic Seas.

Features

The Ostseegarnele is colorless, transparent, with small dark pigment spots, but not with transverse lines and stripes provided as the Sägegarnele. The abdomen is compressed laterally, between the 3rd and the 4th segment is bent slightly downwards. Females can be long, the males are smaller to 7 cm. The rostrum is relatively long and coarsely dentate. At the top it has Dorsalzähne 5-6, on the underside of 2-4 Ventralzähne.

Dissemination

The Ostseegarnele occurs in the eastern Atlantic and its adjacent seas. Thus the species is native to the coasts of North and West of Ireland, southern England, in the North and Baltic Sea and in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Located on the French Channel coast it is rare on the coasts of Norway it is found up to the 60th degree of latitude.

She lives in the coastal upper sublittoral on soft soils with low vegetation and in estuaries.