Available wild-caught, these are marine, estuarine and freshwater Prawns, with juveniles found as far as 35km inland, larger juveniles usually found in shallow mangroves near the coast and adults commonly in coastal waters to depths of 35m, preferring muddy bottoms, but also found over sand. Greentails are found along Australia’s eastern seaboard, from Sale, Victoria, north to Rockhampton, Queensland, and mostly trawled at night from Brisbane River and Moreton Bay, Queensland.
Greasybacks are found from the Gulf of Carpentaria west to Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (near the NT-WA border), and are caught mostly near Darwin. They have a translucent brown to green body with dark brown speckling and green tips on the tail fan; fine hairs on the abdomen often give a ‘greasy’ feel, leading to some of the common names.