It has long been suspected that a small pāua (known as abalone, ormers or ear-shells overseas) found around a remote island chain north of Aotearoa New Zealand differs from all other pāua.

Biologists have discovered a new species of paua mollusk (also known as abalone) off New Zealand ... small pāua from the North Island but the shell has finer sculpture across its back and ...

PhD candidate Kerry Walton holds shells from each of the three paua/abalone species from mainland New Zealand. The smallest of the shells, an adult Haliotis virginea (virgin paua), was the focus ...