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Similar Haliotis, Haliotis ovina, Haliotis asinina, Haliotis jacnensis, Haliotis walallensis | ||
Haliotis varia, common name the variable abalone or the common ear shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.
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Description
The size of the shell varies between 22 mm and 70 mm. It is shiny and the colour varies from something like mother of pearl to pink to red to gray to blue.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific, off Tanzania, Mauritius and in the Mascarene Basin. It further occurs in the Western Pacific, from Sri Lanka to Tonga and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia)
Records from East Africa and India are questionable according to Geiger & Poppe, 2000
References
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