Pandalus borealis is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold waters of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans, though the Pacific population is now often regarded as a separate species, P. eous. The Food and Agriculture Organization refers to it as the northern prawn, and it is also known by many other common names, including pink shrimp, deepwater prawn, deep-sea prawn, Nordic shrimp, great northern prawn, coldwater prawn and Maine shrimp.
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In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United Kingdom, found in there.
Sources
1. GBIF Species API
2. Wikipedia: Pandalus borealis
Wikipedia- Wikidata Q122181 (P225 taxon name)
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The Canadian fishery began in the 1980s and expanded in 1990s.
View the Source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Wikidata: Northern Shrimp
- Wikidata Q122181, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Child Taxon Of: Decapoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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