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If an abalone is touched by a sea star, it twists its shell violently to dislodge the intruder and then gallops off-abalone style.
An abalone's blood is blue-green.
Red Abalone Haliotis rufescens
The largest of the abalone species, the red abalone is so called because of the brick-red color of its thick, roughly oval shell.
Abalones are a favored prey species for sea otters. As otters continue to recover and expand their range they can be expected to decimate all abalone populations in their range.
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Black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii)
The exterior of this marine gastropod mollusc's shell varies in colour from dark blue through dark green to black. It is smooth with little... More 7 Images 0 videos ...
Food
abalone, crabs, shell fish, sea urchins. Also some octopus, squid, fish.
FOOD:
Sea urchins, abalone, mussels, clams, crabs, snails and about 40 other marine species.
Blacklip Abalone
Blacklip Abalone Haliotis rubra
Blacklip Abalone on rock
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Blackspot Angelfish, Genicanthus melanospilos (Bleeker, 1857)
Blackspot Anglerfish, Tathicarpus butleri ...
These skills are also of great use when catching one of the sea otters' favorite foods, abalone. This has angered commercial abalone divers and surprised biologists trying to figure out how the sea otter releases the creature from the stone.
Sea otters eat many of the same things, but mostly sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, and clams, which they crack open against rocks they hold on their stomachs. Otters have long, sensitive whiskers that help them find prey, even in murky water.
They are tool users, using rocks to pound open hard-shelled prey, such as abalone. Once hunted almost to extinction for their fur, but now protected, they have made a comeback.
The marine shelled species of gastropod include edible species such as abalone, conches, periwinkles, whelks, and numerous other sea snails that produce seashells which are coiled in the adult stage, ...
Their diet consists of marine invertebrate herbivores and filter feeders such as mussels, sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus sp.), snails, and abalone. Otters also are known to eat crabs, octopus, squid, sea stars, and fish.
When it dives for shellfish, such as mussels or abalone, it also brings up a small rock. It then floats on its back, places the rock on its chest, and cracks the shell against it.
They eat a wide variety of invertebrates, including clams, snails, worms, sea stars, sea urchins, crabs, squid, octopuses, and abalone. Alaskan sea otters also eat fish.
Diet: Sea otters are carnivores (meat-eaters). They eat (like ), (like , mussels, and abalone), , , , and fish. They hunt for their prey in the ocean and on the sea floor. These intelligent mammals use rocks to help crack open and abalone.
Feeding takes place mainly in the early morning and evening, with sea urchins, crabs, abalones and other shellfish being the main items on the menu, although fish and octopus are also eaten occasionally.
An otter may remove an abalone by repeatedly hitting it with a rock. It also may use a flat rock to break open the shells of crustaceans and mollusks.
Class Gastropoda (Limpets, abalones, snails slugs)
Order Archaeogastropoda
Family Acmaeidae ...
Just the Facts II: They eat shellfish and other invertebrates (especially clams, abalone, and sea urchins), and one can frequently observe them using rocks as crude tools to smash open shells.
Oil spills, habitat loss, plastic entanglement, and conflict with abalone fishermen.
Survival:
The average sea otter lives 10 or 11 years.
Gastropods: Nudibranch (Cadlina luteomarginate), Sea Hare (Aplysia califormica), Jeweled Top Snail (Calliostoma annulatum), Sea Lemon (Anisoclons nobilis), Abalone, Sea Clown nudibranch (Triopha catalinae) California Mussel (Mytilus californianus), ...
Abalone is its favorite food.
The sea otter sleeps and rests on its back, usually anchored in a kelp (seaweed) bed.
It sleeps at sea, sometimes joining hundreds of others in resting areas called rafts.
Sea otters give birth in the ocean.
California Sea Lions swim up to 25mph, which makes them the fastest aquatic carnivore. At night they hunt squid, octopus, abalone, and fish, and when necessary can dive to a depth of 450 feet and remain there for 20 minutes.
The sea otter, found in and near kelp beds in the North Pacific, is a larger heavier animal of the same family which habitually swims on its back. While in this position it carries its catch and eats some its meals of abalone, crab, and sea urchin.
Some otters, like the European and African clawless otter, hunt fish, octopus, frogs and other aquatic prey. Others, such as the sea otter, stick to shellfish. To crack open hard abalone shells, ...
Sea otters do not migrate, but may travel 20 to 250 miles any time of year.
They are playful and intelligent. They use rocks or other hard objects to pry or break open urchins, abalone or other shellfish.
As they age, they can become golden-colored.
 See also: Shell, Otter, Sea Otter, Sea Urchin, Octopus
  
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