SHRIMPS.
Eurghut.ul-Bahr, ARAB. Sqnilla, . . . .
Reie, DAN Camarao, . . . . PORT. Gamma, . . . . DUT, Morskoi ratshok, . Bus.
Chevrette, . . FR. Cameron, . . . Sr.
Garnele, . . . . GER. Itaka SW.
Jinghi, . . . HIND.
Shrimps, in natural history, are classed as maerourous decapodous erustacea, of the families Alpheadm, Crangonidm, Pontonize, comprising the genera metes, alpheus, crangon, palernon, rhyn chocinetes, scrgestes, stenopus, etc., q.v.
Acetes, Milne - Edwards, shrimps analogous to scrgestes in its confirmation but placed at a distance from all the animaLs Of the same order by the absence of the last two pairs of feet. A. Indicus.
Alpheadw shrimps are stouter in their forms than those of the Talemonidx, but they are not depressed as the Crangonidas aro ; the genera are atya, hymenocera, alpheus, pontonia, antonomea, curidina, nika, and atkanus.
Alpheus, Fabr., the carapace is advanced above the eyes, forming above each of those organs a small vaulted buckler. Some species are found in the 3fediterranean, but the greater part in the seas of the Antilles, or in the Indian Ocean.
The type of the Crangonidm family is the com mon shrimp, Crangon rulgaris, and no other genera aro included in it. The common shrimp has tho carapace and abdomen almost entirely smooth, with the exception of ono small median spine on the stomachal region.
Some species of alpheus, a genus of snapping shrimps, occur in China and Singapore. The shield shrimp is a species of the genus apus, ono of the Apodid.
Palemon shrimps aro a useful and delicious genus, and aro very numerous. P. carcinus of the Indian seas and the Ganges is nearly a foot long.
Shrimps aro largely caught in China in baskets, which are baited with wino lees. The baskets are lowered from a. boat to the bottom, and after a short thno are hauled up and their contents emptied. They are eaten alive by Chinese epicures. They are served up for the table in a vessel which contains yellow wine, strong vinegar, and sesamuni oil, and as they leap about vigor ously, are eaten.—Adanis; Gray. See Crustacea.