Oriental river prawn

The natural range covers the delta areas and lower reaches of rivers in the Far East of Asia from Manchuria and Korea in the north to Vietnam and Myanmar in the south, including the Japanese archipelago and Taiwan.

Invasive range. It was artificially introduced to Europe and Western Asia, leading to the formation of invasive populations. The invasive range covers Iran, Iraq, Dagestan, and the lower reaches of the Don River. In Europe, the Oriental river prawn occurs in the waters of Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. It was also introduced to the delta of the Guadalquivir River, Spain, through grain traffic from the Danube Delta to Western Europe.