Pāua
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Pāua is the Māori name given to four New Zealand species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae. It is known in Australia and the United States as
Haliotis iris (blackfoot pāua) shell
From left to right: black-foot pāua (Haliotis iris), yellow-foot pāua (Haliotis australis), virgin pāua (Haliotis virginea)
Haliotis pirimoana
Live Haliotis iris in Southland, NZ
Abalone
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Abalone are sea snails in the genus Haliotis, the only genus in the family Haliotidae. Abalone shells are distinctive for their flattened, ear-like shape, nacreous interior, and row of holes used for
Pāua
…Pāua is the Māori name given to four New Zealand species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (in which there is only one genus, Haliotis). It is known in Australia and the United States as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells. In…
Living Abalone
The iridescent surface inside a red abalone shell from Northern California. The US coin (quarter) is 24.3 mm or 0.955 in in diameter
Abalone with a live sponge on its shell in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
An abalone farm