Help - what sort of prawn??
Submitted: Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:48
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Custom Boat Loaders
We're at
Port Smith just south of
Broome when yesterday saw this prawn - no idea what it is
It was about 5'long, straw coloured, had a tail like a scorpion but moved down not up, had a body like a small lobster, long front arms like a cherabin, and the right nipper a claw like a mudcrab and a flipper on the other like a swimmer crab!
Never seen one before - what was it?
Reply By: Member - Wamuranman - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:59
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:59
Five feet long - it is some prawn....lol
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Follow Up By: Dave(NSW) - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:17
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:17
Might be the one at
Ballina on top of the servo lol.
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Follow Up By: Fred G NSW - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:40
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:40
Don't get many of them to the kilo :-)))
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Reply By: Member - Duncs - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:32
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:32
Was it all the same colour?
My first thought was a coral banded shrimp, but if it was an even straw colour that doesn't quite fit.
As the name implies a coral banded shrimp has bands across its body and that large right nipper.
Could be a boring West Australian variety.
I am happy to be corrected on this, I am working off the knowledge imparted by a one time scuba diving buddy. haven't dived in about 18 years.
Duncs
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Follow Up By: Custom Boat Loaders- Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:50
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 13:50
All the same colour - and it's body and tail was more like 7 inches long [not foot ;-)) ]
The main part of the body was about 3" long x 2" shaped like a lobster, the long spindly front legs/nippers about 4" and the tail about 4"x 1/2"wide. The tail was segmented like a lobster.
Never seen anything like it!
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Reply By: Serendipity of Mandurah (WA) - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 14:08
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 14:08
Maybe one of these.
Scampi
The giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), also known as the giant freshwater prawn or the Malaysian prawn, is a species of freshwater shrimp (not prawn) native to the Indo-Pacific and northern Australia. This species (as
well as other Macrobrachium) is commercially important for its value as a food source.While this species is considered a freshwater one, the larval stage of the animal depends on brackish
water.
http://mumbaifish.com/forms/CateListFreshWater.aspx
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Reply By: Member - Brian (WA) - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 16:04
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 16:04
Can recall something like that.Think it was called a Killer Prawn.Thrown my
speices books out now. We use to one in the drag net now and again.
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Reply By: Member - Duane A (WA) - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 16:11
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 16:11
If your hanging out with Rob up there you blokes better put that Drambuhie away your starting to see things. Sounds like a high speed deep diving racing scampi
well known in thoise parts LOL ! . Nah all jokes aside post a picture of it so we can take a close look regards To all up there .
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Reply By: trilogy - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 17:15
Reply By: Member - Tony V (NSW) - Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 23:26
Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 23:26
Just to make things easier.
Mantis Shrimp
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Follow Up By: nsngood - Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 00:12
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 00:12
GEEZUZ Who eats who for dinner lol
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Follow Up By: nsngood - Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 00:15
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 00:15
Actually after my initial shock i realised that we actually used to get a lot of these things in the families prawn trawlers that used to operate in the gulf of carpentaria during the 70's/80's. some of the front pincers(?) used to get quite large.
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Follow Up By: Custom Boat Loaders- Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 13:08
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 13:08
No this isn't it. At first glance when I saw it scuttling along the sand, I thought it was a very large scorpion however it has a nipper like a mudcrab and uses it the same way. It can put it's nippers behind just like a mudcrab, and they are a hard nipper - same as a crab. The body was thicker than the tail and no markings.
Perhaps it isn't a prawn - more of a strange crab? I didn't have the camera or anything to scoop it into and wasn't sure about the tail even though it didnt come upwards!
Thanks to all the replies.
Di
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Follow Up By: Maîneÿ . . .- Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 18:54
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 18:54
You say: -> "I saw it scuttling along the sand"
So it can live out of
water without hassles then ??
Maîneÿ . . .
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Follow Up By: Custom Boat Loaders- Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 19:04
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 19:04
Yes, which means probably not a prawn.?? It behaves like a crab when threatened - stopping and waving the nippers around and raises them behind the head if you try to get it from behind - but it doesn't walk sides way - goes forwards or backwards.
I've looked online and can't find anything that resembles it.
Di
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Reply By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:06
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:06
could be scampy
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