. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 468 THE EDIBLE PRAWN. While it lives at some distance from the shore, it cannot be captured in the oi'dinary shrimp nets. The fishermen call it the Red Shrimp. The spines, or teeth in the npper edge of the long beak, do not spring at once from the substance of the beak, but are simply jointed to it, so that they can be moved slightly by jiressure. A large number of species belong to the genus Ilippolyte. In these creatures the bealv is very large and strong. Several of the ^rEsop Prawns
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 468 THE EDIBLE PRAWN. While it lives at some distance from the shore, it cannot be captured in the oi'dinary shrimp nets. The fishermen call it the Red Shrimp. The spines, or teeth in the npper edge of the long beak, do not spring at once from the substance of the beak, but are simply jointed to it, so that they can be moved slightly by jiressure. A large number of species belong to the genus Ilippolyte. In these creatures the bealv is very large and strong. Several of the ^rEsop Prawns belong to this genus. They derive their popular name from the hump-like manner in whicli the abdomen is raised towards the centre and then bent downwards. Couch's iEsop (Hijipolytecoucltii) is perhaps the most common of these beautiful little creatures, and has the characteristic hump strongly defined. It may be found plentifully in the shore-pools, flitting about the water with a movement much like the flirting and fluttering of a robin in a garden, and displaying its beautiful colors to the best advantage. It is a lovely little being, very variable in color, but always marked with bright and peculiarly pure hues, mostly white, jiurple, and scarlet. Many of these ^sop Prawns are charming inhabitants of an. EDIBLE VRkWfi.—PultEtnon serratus. a(]ii!irium, their pellucid bodies and beautiful colors making them fit inhabitants of the drawing-room or tlie conservatory. One species, White's yEsop Prawn (Ilippoli/tewJiitei), is an especially l)eautiful creature, being green with a white streak running along the back, and having a number of azure specks scattered over the body. Even the large Edible Prawn {Palcemon serratus), the figure of which is drawn of natural size, is a beautiful inhabitant of an aquarium. No one wlio has only seen Prawns on the table, red, opaque, and with their tails folded under them, can form the least conception of their wondei-ful l)eauty while li\ing. A
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