Haliotis fatui is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.

Description The size of the subcircular to oval-oblong shell varies between 30 mm and 60 mm. It is closely related to Haliotis varia Linnaeus, 1758, but differs in its shell and epipodial characters. The coloration of the shell is brown, yellow brown or dark green.

Distribution This marine species occurs in the central Indo-Pacific

References

Geiger (1999), Description of Haliotis fatui new species (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from the tropical western Pacific; The Nautilus v. 113

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