Is a primitive marine shellfish, single-shell mollusks, and only half of a shell, shell thick, flat and wide. Abalone is a rare traditional Chinese ingredients, the first four of seafood.
Abalone (Abalone), fish with nothing to fall with the snail like beak, according to research: Dunyu, because Baoshuya love to eat, and was known as abalone, and some, like the shape of the human ear. Leaving only a very small portion of the spiral portion traces, accounting shell. Edge of the shell has a 9-hole, water flows into from here, discharge, and even Martin's breathing, excretion and reproduction have to rely on it. So it is also called "9-hole bolt." Shell surface rough, dark brown patches, showing the inner surface of blue, green, red, blue and other colors each pearl luster. After fresh abalone shell, salted period of time, and then cooked, remove the internal organs, dried into a dry goods. It meat is delicious, nutritious. "Abalone, ginseng, wings, belly", is precious seafood, sea cucumber and abalone in the first column, shark fin, fish maw of. There are around 90 kinds of abalone, they traveled throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. China Bohai Bay produced abalone dish called wrinkles, larger individuals, southeast coast called variegated abalone production, individual small; Paracel half grain production Bao, Bao Yang, a famous eating abalone. Since few natural production, and therefore expensive. Now, the state of the world's production of abalone in the development of artificial breeding, China in the 1970s bred variegated abalone, artificial breeding success.