英文文章中常发生shrimP和Prawn混用的情况,使用界限不清。早在1967年,联合国粮农组织在墨西哥城召开的世界虾类生物学和养殖会议上,曾一致同意将Prawn一词专用于淡水虾类,而shrimp则专指海水或淡、咸水虾类。不过,此后尽管反复强调,乃不时发生混用的情况,在《新英汉词典》(1976年版)中shrimp一词译为褐虾、河 English articles often occur shrimP and Prawn mixed with the use of unclear boundaries. As early as 1967, at a conference on world shrimp biology and culture held in Mexico City, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization agreed to dedicate the term Prawn to freshwater prawns and shrimp to seawater or light and saltwater shrimp. However, although repeated emphasis was made from time to time on mixing, the word shrimp was translated into shrimp in the New English-Chinese Dictionary (1976 edition)