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| | Prawn - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Prawns are edible, shrimp-like crustaceans, belonging to the sub-order Dendrobranchiata. |
 | | They are distinguished from the superficially similar shrimp by the gill structure which is branching in prawns (hence the name, dendro="tree"; branchia="gill"), but is lamellar in shrimp. |
 | | The sister taxon to Dendrobranchiata is Pleocyemata, which contains all the true shrimp, crabs, lobsters, etc. |
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