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Abalones are mollusks that are closely related to limpets, but bigger than limpets. An abalone has a single shell that covers its body and has many holes called apertures. The holes help circulate water over the gills. Abalone attach themselves strongly to rocks, using a muscular foot. They feed by trapping algae under their foot and scraping it off with their radula.
A thirteen-year-old abalone is about eighteen centimeters long and has a muscular foot able to exert a grip of about one hundred eighty kilograms. The black abalone's shell can grow up to twenty centimeters wide. An abalone's blood contains properties useful against penicillin-resistant bacteria. But abalones have no blood-clotting mechanisms and will bleed to death if they are injured.
Abalones require and thrive in water well oxygenated by strong waves and currents. Abalones are slow movers. They like to hide in crevices during the day and hunt at night.
 Diet algae and seaweed
 Size six to twelve inches
 Color dark blue, lavender, green, brick red, or black
 Life Cycle
 Predators  cabezon fish, moray eels, crabs, octopi, sea stars, and sea otters
 Neat Facts Abalone divers are not allowed to use SCUBA when diving for abalone.
 Types pink abalone, black abalone, green abalone, pinto abalone, red abalone, white abalone, flat abalone,
 Relatives nudibranchs, sea hares, octopi, squid, scallops, mussels, oysters, clams, chitons, snails, limpets

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Echinoderms

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Cindarians
sculpins sea star lobster octopus scallop  sea anemone
sea cucumber crab nudibranch abalone  
sea urchin barnacles chiton snail  
  mussel limpet