Shrimp
Caridea
Not Kosher
No fins or scales
Fins
No
Scales
No
Description
Shrimp are a major commercial seafood, with hundreds of thousands of tonnes caught wild each year.
Shrimp live worldwide in fresh and salt water and in just about every aquatic habitat, though most are marine. They range from the tropics to polar regions and from shallows down to about 5,000 meters, and they're found on every continent except Antarctica.
Also known as
- Prawn
- Tiger prawn
- Giant shrimp
- Pink shrimp
- White shrimp
Shrimp in foreign languages
| Scientific | Caridea |
| Hebrew | חסילונים |
| Arabic | روبيان |
| Spanish | camarón |
| Portuguese | Camarão |
| Italian | gamberetto |
| Greek | Γαρίδα |
| Russian | Настоящие креветки |
| Turkish | karides |
| Chinese | 真蝦下目 |
| Japanese | コエビ下目 |
| Korean | 생이하목 |
| Hindi | झींगा |
| Bengali | ক্যারিডি |
| Vietnamese | tôm thực sự |
| Thai | กุ้ง |
| Indonesian | udang |
Warnings & Kosher Issues
- A crustacean with no fins and no scales, so it is not kosher. The Torah's ban on non-scaled sea creatures covers shellfish like this.
- Sold interchangeably with prawn, and the name is also loosely applied to look-alikes like mud shrimp and boxer shrimp, which aren't true shrimp.