| Haliotis Temporal range:
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| Living abalone in tank showing epipodium and tentacles, anterior end to the right. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Haliotoidea |
| Family: | Haliotidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Genus: | Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Haliotis asinina | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Haliotis, common name abalone, is the only genus in the family Haliotidae.[2]
This genus once contained six subgenera. These subgenera have become alternate representations of Haliotis.[2] The genus consists of small to very large, edible, herbivorous sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs. The number of species recognized worldwide ranges between 30[3] and 130,[4] with over 230 species-level taxa described. The most comprehensive treatment of the family considers 56 species valid, with 18 additional subspecies.[5]
Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, and, rarely, muttonfish or muttonshells in parts of Australia, ormer in the UK, perlemoen in South Africa, and the Māori name for three species in New Zealand is pāua.[6]
- ^ Geiger & Groves 1999, p. 872
- ^ a b c Gofas, Tran & Bouchet 2014
- ^ Dauphin et al. 1989, p. 9
- ^ Cox 1962, p. 8
- ^ D.L., Geiger (1999). "Distribution and biogeography of the recent Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) world-wide". Bollettino Malacologico.
- ^ Beesley, Ross & Wells 1998[page needed]