Haliotis gigantea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Haliotoidea |
Family: | Haliotidae |
Genus: | Haliotis |
Species: | H. gigantea |
Binomial name | |
Haliotis gigantea Gmelin, 1791 |
Haliotis gigantea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones. It is known as Siebold's Abalone, after Philipp Franz von Siebold.[1]
H. gigantea is endemic to the waters off Japan[2] and Korea.[3]