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If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Shrimp vs prawn is colloquial, not a scientific classification, so it varies from place to place and person to person, and depending on the specific animal we're talking about, but in general

The ones we call shrimp tend to:

Live in salt water
Be smaller
Have curled bodies
Belong to the sub-order pleocytema
Have plate-like ~~girls~~ * gills*

And the ones we call prawns tend to:

Live in fresh water
Be larger
Have straight bodies
Helong to the sub-order dendrobranghiata
Have branching ~~hills~~ gills

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

gills?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The organs that aquatic creatures use to breathe

Edit: I see now that autocorrect did me dirty