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Crangon crangon is a species of caridean shrimp found across the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, its range extending from the White Sea in northern Russia to the coast of Morocco, and including the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas. It is commercially important and fished mainly in the southern North Sea, and is known by several common names including brown shrimp, common shrimp, bay shrimp and sand shrimp. Its genus and species names derive from an Ancient Greek word for shrimp.

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