| Common Name | Palaemonid shrimp |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official Trade Name | No |
| Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
| Country | Belgium |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Maes, J., A. Taillieu, P.A. Van Damme, K. Cottenie and F. Ollevier, 1998 |
| Life Stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | morphology |
| 1st Modifier | person (eponym) |
| 2nd Modifier | |
| Remarks | 'shrimp' from Old Norse 'skorpna', i.e., 'to shrivel up'; 'palaemonid' from Greek 'Palaemon', i.e., Herakles, Melicertes or one of the Argonauts, son of Aetolus. |