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Lifelike Shrimp Replica ~
Tapir and Friends Animal Store
The Official Web Site of The Tapir Preservation Fund ~ Online with Tapir Conservation Since 1996

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Our Plastic Shrimp Replica

Our shrimp is made of hard plastic and measures 2 7/8 inches from antenna to tail. This plastic crustacean is great for school projects, toys, novelties, animal collections, party favors and more. Our plastic shrimp is for decoration or play only. It does not float, and should NOT be put in your aquarium. However, you can make a cool sea-life or aquarium shoebox diorama using this and other plastic aquatic creatures and mammals, sharks, fish, sea turtles, birds, and decor from our gift shop. Best of all, there is no mess, no feeding, and no tank or cage cleaning :) Come look over our other lobster and shrimp toys and gifts.

About Shrimp

Many different, unrelated forms of crustacean fall under the heading of “shrimp”. Most shrimp require a marine environment to grow and reproduce…a very few species can tolerate freshwater environments. Shrimp can collect in schools or survive independently, and form the basic food source for many marine predators. Like lobster, shrimp walk very slowly, but swim (backwards) very quickly by snapping their tail. Unlike lobster, shrimp have been successfully farmed for human consumption since the 1970s, with almost a third of the world’s commercial shrimp supplied by farming.

While the word “prawn” tends to be used in North America to describe any big shrimp, there are biological differences between true shrimp and true prawns. Biologists can distinguish between the two by their gill structure, but an easy way to tell is to examine the segments that form the shrimp’s abdomen. On a shrimp, the second segment overlaps both the first and third segments. On a prawn, it overlaps only the first.