Striped shrimp (muscle shrimp) - Striped shrimp (English name: Palaemon paucidens)

Japanese: スジエビ(筋蝦) - スジエビ（英語表記）Palaemon paucidens

A shrimp of the family Palaemonidae in the Crustacea that lives in lakes and slow-flowing rivers, but its second thoracic leg is not as long as that of the freshwater prawn (illustration). Body length is about 6 cm. In addition to being eaten as tsukudani, it is important as fishing bait and natural food for fish. It is colorless and transparent, with 3 to 4 black-brown stripes on the cephalothorax and 7 on the abdomen. The joints of the thoracic legs are orange-yellow. The rostrum is slightly shorter than that of the cephalothorax, is almost horizontal, and has 5 to 7 spines on the upper edge and 2 to 4 spines on the lower edge. It is distributed in the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, throughout Japan, and Korea.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

湖沼や流れの緩やかな河川にすむ甲殻綱テナガエビ科のエビであるが，テナガエビ（イラスト）ほど第2胸脚が長くない（イラスト）。体長約6cm。つくだ煮として食用にするほか，釣餌，魚類の天然餌料として重要である。無色透明で，頭胸甲に3～4本，腹部に7本の黒褐色の筋がある。胸脚の関節部は橙黄色。額角は頭胸甲より多少短く，ほとんど水平で，上縁に5～7本，下縁に2～4本のとげがある。千島，サハリン，日本全国，韓国に分布する。

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