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Highly valued for its edible muscular foot and mother-of-pearl shell ... acidification and sea-surface temperature rise pose a major emerging threat to pinto abalone. Ocean acidification may hinder ...

By secreting layers of aragonite and conchiolin, the same substances that are in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, commonly known as mother-of-pearl ... became ...