Name | Origin | Era | Look |
---|---|---|---|
Crabs | |||
Spider crab | Atlantic, Channel | April-August | 12-20 cm, red, long legs, fine flesh |
Sea cicada | Atlantic, Mediterranean | all year | stocky, shortened, red-brown |
Green (or rabid) crab | Atlantic, Mediterranean | all year | small, brown-green |
Curry | Atlantic, Channel | may-august | small, flat, brown, thin flesh |
Crab (or sleeper) | Atlantic, Channel | may-september | stocky, large claws, chestnut-brown |
Shrimps | |||
Bouquet | Brittany, Vendée | September-December | 5-10 cm, grayish pink (raw) or red (cooked) |
Gray shrimp | Atlantic, English Channel, North Sea | all year | 5 cm, gray (raw) or red (cooked) |
Pink shrimp (northern) | North Atlantic, North Pacific | all year | 5-10 cm, grayish pink (raw) or brown (cooked) |
Prawn (or tropical) | West tropical Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Guyana, Livestock | all year | 9-12 to 15 cm, grayish pink (raw) or or pink (cooked) |
blue shrimp | New Caledonia (breeding) | all year | 15-20 cm, blue (raw) or pink (cooked) |
Lobsters | |||
American lobster | Canada (east coast), United States of America (northeast) | all year | brown with green reflections, hooked rostrum, hooked, light orange upperparts, white flesh |
European lobster | Atlantic, Mediterranean | June August | dark or light blue, straight rostrum, tasty white flesh |
Lobsters | |||
Cape lobster | South Africa | September-December | scaly carapace, uniform dark brown-brick red |
Cuban lobster | West Indies | all year | red-brown carapace, 2 round white spots on the 2nd and 6th segments |
Pink or Portuguese lobster | Atlantic | end of March - end of August | a little chunky, studded with small light spots |
Red, royal or Breton lobster | Channel, Atlantic, Mediterranean | end of March - end of August | squat, reddish-brown or purplish carapace, with acute tubercles, 2 light triangular spots on each segment |
Green or Mauritanian lobster | West Africa | June-October | Long antennae with antennulles, blue-green carapace, each segment marked with a light band and 2 white, round spots |
Scampi | Europe | April-August | pink, first prism-shaped tweezers |
Stalked cirriped crustaceans | |||
Barnacle | Atlantic, West Africa | October-February (legal period) | white shell with orange stripe, gray or brown peduncle |
Pusher | Atlantic, West Africa | October-February (legal period) | gray shell with black drawn lines, brown and orange peduncle |
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