What kind of animal is abalone? Does it live in salt water or fresh water?

Abalone belongs to the genus Haliotis, a primitive gastropod of mollusca. It is a mollusk and shellfish.

Abalone has a soft body inside and a hard calcium shell outside.

Abalone lives in the ocean and is a kind of marine animal, which is distributed in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean all over the world.

Abalone likes to eat algae, and algae such as Undaria pinnatifida, goose intestine and ponytail are particularly popular in abalone.

1. What animal is abalone? Abalone is a common food and belongs to a relatively expensive food.

According to the classification of abalone, they belong to the genus Abalone, the primitive gastropod of Mollusca.

It can be seen that abalone belongs to mollusks and shellfish.

Some people think that abalone belongs to a kind of fish because it has the word "fish" in its name. Actually, this view is a misunderstanding. Abalone is not a fish, but it is very different from fish and cannot be confused.

Abalone is soft inside and has a hard calcareous shell outside to protect their bodies.

Judging from the living environment, abalone lives in seawater and can be said to be a marine animal.

Judging from the specific sea areas where abalone is distributed, they are widely distributed in the sea areas all over the world, including the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

In northeast China, abalone is also a traditional producing area.

In terms of feeding habits, abalone's favorite food is algae, among which Undaria pinnatifida, goose intestine and horsetail are all abalone's favorite foods.

Whether wild or farmed, their main food is plants.

Secondly, whether abalone lives in salt water or fresh water has been introduced above. Judging from the living environment of abalone, they inhabit the ocean, that is, salt water with relatively high salinity.

Abalone has lived in salt water for a long time, and its body has already adapted to the high salinity environment, so it can't live in fresh water and can't adapt to the environment in fresh water.

From the specific distribution of abalone in the sea area, it is still very extensive, because they are distributed in three other oceans except the Arctic Ocean.