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Please ID help Abalone
03-03-2019, 10:58 PM,
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Please ID help Abalone
Hi
Please help me to identify this Abalone shell.
It is 155x110 mm.
Thank you


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03-08-2019, 07:05 AM,
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RE: Please ID help Abalone
The reddish coloration suggests Halitosis rufescens from western North America. A young one. The species reaches more than twice this size.
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03-10-2019, 05:43 AM,
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RE: Please ID help Abalone
Thank you Paul!
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04-09-2019, 05:17 AM,
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RE: Please ID help Abalone
Hello Ermir,
possibly Paul is right, but another possibility can be Haliotis sorenseni, which is also red and from the american west coast. Hints in this direction for me are the very rounded form, the direction of the striae, but overall the high holewalls, which are in rufescens often flat.
Please look inside. Rufescens has a very rough and dark muscular scarve, sorenseni doesn't have this.
Jan Delsing
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