Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Palaemonoidea > Family Palaemonidae > Genus Palaemon

Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1836

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Palaemon*	Weber, 1795	accepted genus name
*Palaemonetes*	Heller, 1869	synonym
*Palemon*	Weber, 1795	synonym

Species group names

*Cancer squilla*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Palaemon squilla*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: roskildereje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: roodsprietgarnaal sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English: Baltic prawn sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

French: bouquet balte sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Baltische Felsgarnele; Ostseegarnele sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

Greek: Γαριδάκι Βαλτικής sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: strandreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: strandreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: krewetka bałtycka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: vanlig tångräka

Literature

original description	Rathke, H. (1836). Zur Fauna der Krym. [On the Fauna of Crimea]. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Pétersbourg. 3(3-4): 291-454, pls. 1-10 [imprint 1837; preprint dated 1836].
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Holthuis, L.B.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (1993). Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. 15. Second Edition.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589.
additional source	González-Ortegón, E.; Cuesta, J.A. (2006). An illustrated key to species of Palaemon and Palaemonetes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from European waters, including the alien species Palaemon macrodactylus. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 86(1): 93-102

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1836. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107613