Concholepas is restsricted to western South America, essentially Chile and
Peru. I never heard it called "false abalone" before, though the name fits I
guess. It is a heavy, thick-shelled muricid with a very wide open mouth,
making it rather limpet-like or abalone-like, and it lives attached to rocks
much the same way limpets and abalone live. Of course it doesn't have the
holes in the shell that an abalone has.

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