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Lake prawn

Palaemon paucidens De Haan, 1844

Status not recordedcrustaceans

The lake prawn (Palaemon paucidens) is a species in the family Palaemonidae, order Decapoda.

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Quick facts about the lake prawn

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the lake prawn live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the lake prawn as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Japan

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the lake prawn endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the lake prawn classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classMalacostraca
  4. orderDecapoda
  5. familyPalaemonidae
  6. genusPalaemon
  7. SpeciesPalaemon paucidens De Haan, 1844

Synonyms Leander paucidens, Palaemon paucidens, Palemon paucidens

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Camarón de lagoSpanish
  • Bouquet de lacFrench
  • スジエビJapanese
  • 줄새우Korean

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the lake prawn

Other species in the same genus Palaemon.

Baltic prawn

Palaemon adspersus

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Grass prawm

Palaemon elegans

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CompareLake prawn vs Common prawnLake prawn vs Baltic prawnLake prawn vs Grass prawmLake prawn vs Mangrove prawn

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the lake prawn an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the lake prawn as introduced in 1 country: Japan, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the lake prawn?

The lake prawn (Palaemon paucidens) belongs to the family Palaemonidae in the order Decapoda.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Lake prawn (Palaemon paucidens). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/lake-prawn

MLA

“Lake prawn (Palaemon paucidens).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/lake-prawn.

BibTeX
@misc{lake_prawn_2026,
  title = {Lake prawn (Palaemon paucidens)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/lake-prawn},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}