Abalone

Abalone; Temporal range:
	Living abalone in tank showing epipodium and tentacles, anterior end to the right.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Haliotidae; Rafinesque, 1815
Genus:	Haliotis
Type species
	Haliotis asinina Linnaeus, 1758;

The iridescent inside surface of an abalone shell

Abalone (from Spanish Abulón) are shellfish, a genus of gastropods.^[2]^[3]

Abalone are known by their colorful "pearlescent" inside shell. This is also called ear-shell, ormer in Guernsey, abalone in South Africa, and pāua in New Zealand.

The meat of this shellfish is considered to be a delicacy in some parts of Latin America (especially Chile), South East Asia, and East Asia (especially in China, Japan, and Korea).

↑ Geiger, Daniel L.; Groves, Lindsey T. (September 1999). "Review of Fossil Abalone (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Haliotidae) with Comparison to Recent Species". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (5): 872. doi:10.1017/S0022336000040713. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 87537607.
↑ Moore R.C. (ed) 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.
↑ Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. 2000. A conchological iconography: the family Haliotidae. Germany: ConchBooks.

[Geiger1999-1] Geiger, Daniel L.; Groves, Lindsey T. (September 1999). "Review of Fossil Abalone (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Haliotidae) with Comparison to Recent Species". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (5): 872. doi:10.1017/S0022336000040713. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 87537607.

[2] Moore R.C. (ed) 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.

[3] Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. 2000. A conchological iconography: the family Haliotidae. Germany: ConchBooks.

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