Haliotis squamosa

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Large Haliotis squamosa shell (with epizoa) from near Tolagnaro (Fort-Dauphin), Madagascar. Length of 95.5 mm. Haliotis squamosa - Tolanaro.jpg
Large Haliotis squamosa shell (with epizoa) from near Tolagnaro (Fort-Dauphin), Madagascar. Length of 95.5 mm.

Haliotis squamosa
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View of a shell of Haliotis squamosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Haliotidae
Genus: Haliotis
Species:
H. squamosa
Binomial name
Haliotis squamosa
Gray, 1826
Synonyms [2]
  • Haliotis crebrisculptaG.B. Sowerby III, 1914
  • Haliotis roedingiMenke, 1844

Haliotis squamosa, common name the squamose abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone. [2]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 90 mm. "The shell has an oblong-ovate shape, transversely obliquely wrinkled and spirally tubularly ribbed. The tubercles are scale-like. The ribs are sometimes close, sometimes with a fine ridge running between them. The seven, open perforations are rather large. The exterior is spotted and variegated with yellow and orange-brown. The interior surface is whitish and iridescent.

This is an extremely interesting species, well characterized by its close ribs of scale-like tubercles, ranging across the shell in oblique waves. In the middle portion of the shell there is a fine ridge running between the ribs. The color is also peculiar, a kind of burnt-umberstained orange." [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off southern Madagascar. Gray erroneously described the species to occur off Australia.

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References

  1. Peters, H. (2021). "Haliotis squamosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T78771710A78772608. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T78771710A78772608.en .
  2. 1 2 Haliotis squamosa Gray, 1826 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 April 2010.
  3. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890