Haliotis pirimoana, commonly the Manawatāwhi pāua,[1] is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.

Protoconch opaque white, surface rough, lacking strong sculpture, of approximately 0.7 whorls, 0.23 mm width, with a distinctive V-shaped notch indenting the suture just before protoconch/teleoconch boundary.

First half teleoconch whorl opaque white, second half whorl translucent, pale, with faint, similar, commarginal axial lamellae, their spacing increasing slightly with size; fine spiral riblets finer or absent nearer suture.

Each 4th or 8th primary spiral cord in some specimens with regularly alternating brown and paler sectors; some specimens additionally with irregular chevron-shaped colour blotches, their spacing gradually increasing abapically, strongest adapically and near peripheral concavity.

[2][3] Regulations are in place for the harvesting of "pāua" in the Auckland and Kermadec area wherein the entirety of the Three Kings Islands and therefore the locality of H. pirimoana can be found.