prawn vs shrimp

[Mfung]

Whcih is bigger in terms of size in British English, a prawn or a shrimp?

[Beeesneees]

Prawns and shrimp both come in varying sizes. They can both be really big or really small. Actual Size has nothing to do with the difference between them, though. Shrimp some people think prawns are always bigger.

The difference lies in their gill structure. Prawns have a branching gill structure, whilst the gill structure of shrimps is lamellar. There is also a difference in the way that the two brood their eggs. Prawn's legs are longer than those of shrimps and the shrimp's front pair of pincers is larger, whilst the prawn's second pair of pincers is bigger. Prawns are similar to lobster, as they have two pairs of small pincers but due to the fact that they are similar in size to shrimps, they are sometimes confused with them.

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