Abalone

Abalone Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous – Recent[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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

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).

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.