Abalone
Living abalone in tank showing epipodium and tentacles, anterior end to the right.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Haliotidae Rafinesque, 1815
Genus:	Haliotis
Type species
Haliotis asinina Linnaeus, 1758

A piece of abalone shell

The iridescent inside surface of an abalone shell

The raw meat of abalone

Abalone (from Spanish Abulón) are shellfish, a genus of gastropods.

Abalone are known by their colorful "pearlescent" inside shell. This is also called ear-shell, ormer in Guernsey, abalone in South Africa, and pāua in New Zealand.

The meat of this shellfish is considered to be a delicacy in some parts of Latin America (especially Chile), South East Asia, and East Asia (especially in China, Japan, and Korea).