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Marine Species Identification Guide for the St. Lawrence
Invertebrates • Species
Pandalus borealis
Northern shrimp - Crevette nordique

Pandalus borealis
Characteristics:
• abdominal median spine
• rostrum with small spines
• smaller specimens are males that later become females
Pandalus borealis
Family:
Pandalidae
Type of measure:
Cephalothorax mm
Maximum size:
35 mm
specimen identified  specimen identified
territory covered  territory covered    territory not covered  territory not covered

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