by neufer » Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:02 pm
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:09 pm
Hmmm! I wonder what that Europan shrimp would taste like?
As decapods, Europan shrimp can probably count to ten.
However, as prey to
cephalopods (and Forest Gump) they will never be the most intelligent of species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda wrote:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
<<The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is estimated to contain nearly 15,000 species in around 2,700 genera, with around 3,300 fossil species. Nearly half of these species are crabs, with the shrimp (about 3,000 species) and Anomura including hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, squat lobsters (about 2500 species) making up the bulk of the remainder. Decapods originated in the Late Ordovician around 455 million years ago, with the Dendrobranchiata (prawns) being the first group to diverge. The remaining group, called Pleocyemata, then diverged between the swimming shrimp groupings and the crawling/walking group called Reptantia, consisting of lobsters and crabs. High species diversification can be traced to the Jurassic and Cretacious periods, which coincides with the rise and spread of modern coral reefs, a key habitat for the decapods.>>
- Prawn vs. Prains: After Dorothy and her friends have completed their mission, the Wizard gives the Scarecrow brains (made out of BRAN, PINS and needles, as he has been the most intelligent of the group all along).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrobranchiata wrote:
<<Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of decapods, commonly known as prawns. There are 540 extant species in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian. They differ from related animals, such as Caridea and Stenopodidea, by the branching form of the gills and by the fact that they do not brood their eggs, but release them directly into the water. They may reach a length of over 330 millimetres (13 in) and a mass of 450 grams (1.0 lb), and are widely fished and farmed for human consumption. While Dendrobranchiata and Caridea belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance, and in many contexts such as commercial farming and fisheries, they are both often referred to as "shrimp" and "prawn" interchangeably. In the United Kingdom, the word "prawn" is more common on menus than "shrimp", while the opposite is the case in North America. The term "prawn" is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (such as "king prawns", yet sometimes known as "jumbo shrimp"). Australia and some other Commonwealth nations follow this British usage to an even greater extent, using the word "prawn" almost exclusively. When Australian comedian Paul Hogan used the phrase, "I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you" in an American television advertisement, it was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.>>
[quote="orin stepanek" post_id=319892 time=1642252158 user_id=100812]
Hmmm! I wonder what that Europan shrimp would taste like?[/quote]
As decapods, Europan shrimp can probably count to ten.
However, as prey to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod]cephalopods[/url] (and Forest Gump) they will never be the most intelligent of species.
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda]
[float=left][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNGnrO3thMY[/youtube][/float]
<<The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is estimated to contain nearly 15,000 species in around 2,700 genera, with around 3,300 fossil species. Nearly half of these species are crabs, with the shrimp (about 3,000 species) and Anomura including hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, squat lobsters (about 2500 species) making up the bulk of the remainder. Decapods originated in the Late Ordovician around 455 million years ago, with the Dendrobranchiata (prawns) being the first group to diverge. The remaining group, called Pleocyemata, then diverged between the swimming shrimp groupings and the crawling/walking group called Reptantia, consisting of lobsters and crabs. High species diversification can be traced to the Jurassic and Cretacious periods, which coincides with the rise and spread of modern coral reefs, a key habitat for the decapods.>>[/quote]
[list][b]Prawn vs. Prains: [i][color=#0000FF]After Dorothy and her friends have completed their mission, the Wizard gives the Scarecrow brains (made out of [u]BRAN, PINS[/u] and needles, as he has been the most intelligent of the group all along)[/color][/i].[/b][/list]
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrobranchiata]
<<Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of decapods, commonly known as prawns. There are 540 extant species in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian. They differ from related animals, such as Caridea and Stenopodidea, by the branching form of the gills and by the fact that they do not brood their eggs, but release them directly into the water. They may reach a length of over 330 millimetres (13 in) and a mass of 450 grams (1.0 lb), and are widely fished and farmed for human consumption. While Dendrobranchiata and Caridea belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance, and in many contexts such as commercial farming and fisheries, they are both often referred to as "shrimp" and "prawn" interchangeably. In the United Kingdom, the word "prawn" is more common on menus than "shrimp", while the opposite is the case in North America. The term "prawn" is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (such as "king prawns", yet sometimes known as "jumbo shrimp"). Australia and some other Commonwealth nations follow this British usage to an even greater extent, using the word "prawn" almost exclusively. When Australian comedian Paul Hogan used the phrase, "I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you" in an American television advertisement, it was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.>> [/quote]