Species: Common prawn

Latin name: Palaemon elegans
Size: up to 6cm long
Colour: pale brown
Habitat: middle shore rockpools
Facts:

Young prawns are see-through so they are well camouflaged
They flick their tail and shoot backwards quickly to escape from danger
Put your bare feet in a rockpool and prawns will come and eat your dead skin – a prawn pedicure!
Prawns are crustaceans and are related to crabs and lobsters

Seashore code: Prawns don’t like being kept in a bucket and will try to jump out - once you have looked at them, release them back into the same rockpool