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Description
- 📏 up to 15 cm
- 🌊 rivers and freshwater streams
The monkey river prawn (ʻoura pape, the « freshwater shrimp ») lives in rivers, hidden under stones by day. Its larvae go down to the sea before swimming back up the rivers once young, a cycle it shares with other freshwater shrimps. It is fished and eaten on several islands.
In island life
ʻOura pape and ʻoura ʻoihaʻa are the Tahitian names recorded for this prawn: pape means « fresh water ».
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Chevrette.
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