Prawn Collection

Decapoda crabs and shrimps: horrid elbow crab, Daldorfia horrida, sentinel crab, Podophthalmus vigil, Gibbs sea spider, Pisa armata, angular crab, Goneplax rhomboides, Solenolambrus tenellus

A Morecambe prawn fishing boat

Parnall Prawn S1576, at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Felixstowe. Date: 1930

Prawners, Sydney Harbour
An etching of some prawn fishing boats beside a dock, with four people sorting their catch and supplies. Date: circa 1925

Crown crab and Indian egera crab
Crown crab, Hymenosoma orbiculare 1, and Indian egera crab, Phalangipus indicus 2. Imenosomo orbicolare, Egeria dell India

Bigclaw river shrimp, Macrobrachium carcinus (Jamaica prawn, Palaemon carcinus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Spearer mantis shrimp, Lysiosquillina maculata (Squilla maculata). Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Tahitian prawn, Macrobrachium lar (Palaemon ornatum). Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Spider wasp, pickerelweed and watchman prawn
Black-banded spider wasp, Anoplius viaticus 1, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata 2, and watchman prawn, Anchistus custos 3. Pompile, Pontederie, Pontonie

Scene at Berck-sur-Mer, Pas de Calais, Northern France, with fisherwomen in the sea with their nets, hunting for prawns. 1922

Bali fisherman up to his neck in water
Bali fisherman pushing fishing net frame while up to his neck in seawater Date: 1989

Atelettes -- food on decorative skewers, including shellfish, vegetables, crystallised fruit, truffles and jelly. circa 1890

Plate 90 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Wills cigarette card - Common Prawn. Date: circa 1935

Fossils of extinct Jurassic prawn, Aeger tipularius, and dragonfly, Aeschna grandis.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A

Fossil prawn
Specimen of a fossilied prawn preserved in the Solnhofen Pink Limestone, Germany

Fossilised Acanthochirana cordata, prawn
Fossilised prawn specimen from Solenhofen, Germany dating from the Upper Jurassic, 250 million years ago

Species of prawn and shrimp reared at the Museum
To understand more about the life histories of many Atlantic shellfish species are reared at the Museum & observed closely

A Prawn and other Things
An Aesop prawn and some other sea creatures

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