隶属长臂虾科、沼虾属。日本沼虾自然分布于中国、日本、朝鲜半岛、越南、缅甸。这种沼虾为我国重要的淡水食用虾，栖憩湖泊，池塘和江河中。
学名：Macrobrachium nipponense
英文名：Japanese marsh shrimp
This species belongs to the genus of Macrobrachium,family of Palaemonidae.Mainly distributed in China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Myanmar. This kind of macaques is an important freshwater edible shrimp, and also inhabits in lakes,ponds and rivers in Chinese.