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View of a shell of Haliotis fatui | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Superfamily: | Haliotoidea |
Family: | Haliotidae |
Genus: | Haliotis |
Species: |
H. fatui
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Binomial name | |
Haliotis fatui Geiger, 1999 |
Haliotis fatui is a speciesofsea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[2]
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.
This marine species occurs in the central Indo-Pacific
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