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Ohio river prawn
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Ohio river prawn

Macrobrachium ohione

Macrobrachium ohione, commonly known as the Ohio shrimp or Ohio River shrimp, is a species of freshwater shrimp found in rivers throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean drainage basins of North America. It is the best-known of all North American freshwater shrimp, and is commonly used as bait for commercial fishing, especially catfish.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 224300.