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1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. xxvii. 279 There are also river Shrimps in these parts of the same size as our common shrimps.

1841 Bude Light July 149 You could not detect anything living, neither river-shrimp, lively grig, nor Blackwall whitebait swimming or wriggling therein.

1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 136 At a single draw of the net we brought out not less than half a bushel of these river shrimps.

1943 L. Lenski Bayou Suzette xiii. 181 ‘Me, I ketch river shrimp,’ announced Suzette. ‘Maman, she make jambalaya for supper.’

1980 M. Thelwell Harder they Come ii. 62 He pushed it into the current, put the birds and the pail on it, and began to float downstream, searching the shallows for janga , the brown river shrimp, which could be found clinging to the mossy undersides of rocks.

2001 Pract. Fishkeeping Feb. 86/2 By persisting with ‘luxury’ foods such as live brineshrimp and live rivershrimp at every feeding, many fish will be increasingly reluctant to accept more convenient frozen and flake foods.