Haliotis fatui
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Haliotis fatui is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.
Haliotis fatui is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.
Description
The size of the subcircular to oval-oblong shell varies between 30 mm and 60 mm. It is closely related to Haliotis varia Linnaeus, 1758 , but differs in its shell and epipodial characters. The coloration of the shell is brown, yellow brown or dark green.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the central Indo-Pacific
References
Geiger (1999), Description of Haliotis fatui new species (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from the tropical western Pacific; The Nautilus v. 113
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