| Common Name | Guinea shrimp |
| Language | English |
| Type | FAO |
| Official Trade Name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Holthuis, L.B., 1980 |
| Life Stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | morphology |
| 1st Modifier | locality/area |
| 2nd Modifier | |
| Remarks | 'shrimp' from Old Norse 'skorpna', i.e., 'to shrivel up'; Guinea, i.e. from Gulf of Guinea, a broad inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the great bend in the west-central coast of Africa. It includes the Bights of Benin and Biafra. |