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Haliotis fatui

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon = Haliotis fatui

| image = Haliotis fatui 001.jpg

| image_caption = View of a shell of Haliotis fatui

| authority = Geiger, 1999

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Peters, H. |date=2021 |title=Haliotis fatui |volume=2021 |page=e.T78764797A78772458 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T78764797A78772458.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

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Haliotis fatui is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.{{WRMS species|445324|Haliotis fatui Geiger, 1999||9 April 2010}}

Description

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.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the central Indo-Pacific

References

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  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8270925#page/93/mode/1up Geiger (1999), Description of Haliotis fatui new species (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from the tropical western Pacific; The Nautilus v. 113]

External links

{{Commons category|Haliotis fatui}}

  • {{Gastropods.com|key=8|id=11168|title=Haliotis (Haliotis) fatui|access-date=16 January 2019}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1999

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