Art,

Try a peek at the Abalone Mapping Project by Dr. Daniel Geiger:
http://www.vetigastropoda.com/ABMAP/text/  You can click on the map and find
the species that inhabit a particular area.  For your area of question is
looks like Haliotis dalli.  This is one of those web sites that prove the
value of the Internet.  Give it a try.

Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, no flying pigs here, just a beautiful sunny
day.

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> Dear all;-
>    What we need is a good discussion of something. A prize will
> be offered for the best suggestion: the closely guarded recipe
> for Flying Pig Stew.
>    Here, in the midwest, we have Cicadas. Billions of them.
> People are even eating them---dipped in chocolate or guacamole.
> They are known, familiarly, as the 17 year locusts. When the
> temperature reaches 70%, they begin singing. It is loud enough to
> deaden the ringing in my ears.
>     OK, a shell inquiry: a friend brought me a Haliotis from
> Chile. It is 58mm. Beautiful. But I can't find any note of Abs
> from that coast of South America.
>     And, oh yes, my Cincinnati REDS are in first place. ---at
> least for now.
>      Art
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