What is the edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis, which has an ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior?
Haliotis asinina flesh of "Haliotis asinina" is edible, and it is usually collected for food and also for its shell in South East Asian countries. This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text (but not under GFDL) from reference. Haliotis asinina Haliotis asinina, common name the ass's-ear abalone, is a fairly large species of sea snail, a tropical gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones, also known as ormers or paua. Both the common name and the scientific name are based on the shape of the shell, which is long, narrow and curved, resembling the shape of a donkey's ear. The maximum shell length
Sea snail Sea snail Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in saltwater, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans. The shells of most species of sea snails are spirally coiled. Some, though, have conical shells, and these are often referred to by the common name of limpets. In one unusual family (Juliidae), the shell of the snail has become two hinged plates closely resembling those of