Pink/Brown Shrimp (Metapenaeus Monoceros)

Pandalus montagui is a translucent, pinkish shrimp, generally growing to about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long. The colour is due to a number of red chromatophores and there are also a few short red streaks running obliquely on the carapace. The rostrum is long, up-curved and divided at the tip with 10-12 teeth on its posterior dorsal edge. There is a spine under the eye on the carapace. The first antenna divides into two parts and the second is very long, exceeding the length of the body and being banded in pale and dark brown. This shrimp can be distinguished from the rather similar Pandalus tridens by having a shorter rostrum and longer dactyls (claws) on the third and fourth pereopods (walking limbs).