What type of abalone do you think this is?

bigcoral · Jul 15, 2023

It's shell has maintained a white color in the two months or so that I've had it. It has grown from about an inch to about two inches in this time. Any ideas are appreciated, I believe it to be a white abalone!

blaxsun · Jul 15, 2023

I can't view the video; do you have any images of the shell? It doesn't look anywhere near as furry as mine.

bigcoral · Jul 15, 2023

It looks like a stomatella at first glance but when I inspected it when I first found it & it's easy to tell in person that it has 5 or so small pores going down that left ridge.. stomatella do not have this, right? This is the best shot I could ever get since it's so small right now. I'm hoping I can get confirmation it is an abalone at least since it has the pores.

bigcoral · Jul 15, 2023

blaxsun said:
I can't view the video; do you have any images of the shell? It doesn't look anywhere near as furry as mine.

Forgot to tag you in my reply, thanks

blaxsun · Jul 16, 2023

This is what my guy "Slick" looks like (not an actual image, but he closely resembles this one).

bigcoral · Jul 16, 2023

blaxsun said:
This is what my guy "Slick" looks like (not an actual image, but he closely resembles this one).

That's a pretty cool one! Mine is exactly like this in shell shape with the holes, just white with no 'fringe' however it does have that sort of lip that comes over the shell that you can see in your image.

blaxsun · Jul 16, 2023

bigcoral said:
That's a pretty cool one! Mine is exactly like this in shell shape with the holes, just white with no 'fringe' however it does have that sort of lip that comes over the shell that you can see in your image.

Probably an abalone then. Yeah, when it eventually dies you end up with this super cool, iridescent shell...