Category: Shell Sheet

DONKEY EAR ABALONE (Haliotis asinina), Philippines: a tiny little thin-shelled animal, often used whole for earrings and pendants, its long narrow shape looks like a donkey’s ear. Palest pink with no black lines, but...

PAUA ABALONE (Haliotis iris), New Zealand and neighboring islands: indisputably the most colorful nacreous shell in the world, typically deep blue or green, but even the pink material turns bluish when viewed at an...