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Palaemon elegans (rockpool prawn)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Palaemon elegans is a species of shrimp of the family Palaemonidae. It is found in the Atlantic, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Azores. It is similar to three other members of the Palaemon genus: Palaemon serratus, Palaemon longirostris and Palaemon adspersus, and has displaced or replaced populations of Palaemon adspersus in some locations. It is considered an invasive species in parts of the United States.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Adlergrund 57815 Germany    
SPA Pommersche Bucht 495241 Germany    

Prey / Diet

Hediste diversicolor (veelkleurige zeeduizendpoot)[1]
Neogobius melanostomus (Round goby)[1]

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicometra fasciata[4]
Nectonema agile[4]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Diet composition of two gobiid species in the Khadzhibey Estuary (North-Western Black Sea, Ukraine), Sergiy Kudrenko, Yuriy Kvach, ACTA UNIVERSITATIS NICOLAI COPERNICI PRACE LIMNOLOGICZNE NR 24 – LIMNOLOGICAL PAPERS N° 24 NAUKI MATEMATYCZNO-PRZYRODNICZE – ZASZYT 112 – TORUŃ 2005
♦ 3Feeding habits of the Madeira rockfish Scorpaena maderensis from central Mediterranean Sea, G. La Mesa, M. La Mesa, P. Tomassetti, Mar Biol (2007) 150:1313–1320
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0