2006-09-01 05:02:51 · 11 answers · asked by ASHESLYNN812 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
They are both decapods and related. Shrimps are smaller than prawns.
http://www.pznow.co.uk/marine/decopoda.html
There are freshwater shrimps and saltwater ones but prawns are always saltwater animals.
2006-09-01 05:05:44 · answer #1 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people say the difference is size. In many parts of the country, small and medium shrimp are sold simply as shrimp, while large, extra-large, and jumbo shrimp are called prawns.
2006-09-01 05:06:29 · answer #2 · answered by seef 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prawns are the jumbo size shrimp.
2006-09-01 09:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the states both are usually called shrimp. What you would call prawns we would call Jumbo Shrimp...
Which makes for a really cool oxymoron...
2006-09-01 05:09:50 · answer #4 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shrimp : any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum and including some (especially family Penaeidae) that are commercially important as food; also : a small crustacean (as an amphipod or a branchiopod) resembling the true shrimps
Prawn: any of various widely distributed edible decapod crustaceans: as a : one (as of the genera Pandalus and Penaeus) that resembles shrimps and has a large compressed abdomen b : SHRIMP; especially : a large shrimp c : LANGOUSTINE
2006-09-01 05:06:55 · answer #5 · answered by wennefoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, prawns are big and shrimps are....shrimp.
2006-09-01 05:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, prawns are freshwater while shrimps live in saltwater.
2006-09-01 05:04:43 · answer #7 · answered by kaffinat3d 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
PRAWNS ARE GIANT SHRIMPS.
2006-09-01 05:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by dUBAii 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prawns are bigger.
2006-09-01 05:23:13 · answer #9 · answered by Brianna'sMomma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Size and what part of the united states you live. lol
2006-09-01 05:05:15 · answer #10 · answered by lisapj 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋