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Aren't shrimp and prawn already the exact same thing?
Like mountain lions and cougars.
Shrimp vs prawn is colloquial, not a scientific classification, so it varies from place to place and person to person, and depending on the specific animal we're talking about, but in general
The ones we call shrimp tend to:
And the ones we call prawns tend to:
gills?
The organs that aquatic creatures use to breathe
Edit: I see now that autocorrect did me dirty