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Pandalus Jordani
''Pandalus'' (cold-water prawn) is a genus of Caridea, shrimp in the Family (biology), family Pandalidae. Members of the genus are medium-sized and live on or near the seabed. Some species are the subject of commercial fisheries and are caught by trawling. One species, ''Pandalus montagui'', lives in association with the reef-building polychaete worm, ''Sabellaria spinulosa''.''Pandalus''
Marine Macrofauns Genus Trait Handbook. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
Their lifespan is typically three to five years, with sexual maturity being reached at an early age. Members of this genus are Sequential hermaphroditism, protandric hermaphrodites, starting life as males and later becoming females. Reproduction takes place in the spring when up to 3,000 eggs are produced and fertilised internally. The female carries them around un ...
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Pandalus Borealis
''Pandalus borealis'' is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold parts of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans, although the latter population now often is regarded as a separate species, ''P. eous''. The Food and Agriculture Organization refers to them as the northern prawn. Other common names include pink shrimp, deepwater prawn, deep-sea prawn, Nordic shrimp, great northern prawn, northern shrimp, coldwater prawn and Maine shrimp. Distribution ''Pandalus borealis'' usually lives on a soft muddy bottoms at depths of , in waters with a temperature of , although it has been recorded from and . ''P. borealis'' thrives in waters where the salinity ranges between 32 and 35 ppt, depending on where the shrimp are at in their life cycle. The distribution of the North Atlantic nominate subspecies ''P. b. borealis'' ranges from New England in the United States, Canada's eastern seaboard (off Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Baffin Island in Nunavut), southern and ea ...
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