Haliotis clathrata

Haliotis clathrata, common name the lovely abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[1]

Haliotis clathrata
A shell of Abalone clathrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Family: Haliotidae
Genus: Haliotis
Species:
H. clathrata
Binomial name
Haliotis clathrata
Reeve, 1846
Synonyms[1]
  • Haliotis (Haliotis) clathrata Reeve, 1846
  • Haliotis clathrata f. tomricei Patamakanthin, 2002
  • Haliotis naevosa Martyn
  • Haliotis tomricei Patamakanthin, 2002
  • Haliotis crebrisculpta G.B. Sowerby III, 1914
  • Haliotis tuvuthaensis Ladd in Ladd & Hofmeister, 1945
  • Haliotis venusta A. Adams & Reeve, 1848

This species also occurs in a different form: Haliotis clathrata f. tomricei (Patamakanthin, 2002).

Description

The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 60 mm. The large, solid but not thick shell has a rounded-oval shape and is much depressed. The distance of the apex measures from the margin one-fifth the length of the shell. The shell is sculptured with fine spiral cords cut by close minute striae of increment, and has radiating waves or folds above. A slight angle at the row of perforations, below it is broadly excavated and then carinated. The about six perforations are elevated and circular. The outline is suborbicular and much depressed. The color pattern of the surface is either dark red with few radiating angular white patches, or dull red and green, streaked and mottled. The spiral cords of the outer surface are either nearly equal, or have slightly larger ones at wide intervals. They are decussated by close growth-striae. The whorls number a trifle over three. The inner surface is corrugated like the outer surface, silvery, very brilliantly iridescent. The reflections are chiefly sea-green and red. The columellar plate is broad, flat, and obliquely truncated at its base. The cavity of the spire is wide, open, but shallow. This is a variable form, in color varying from dark coral red to dull red streaked with pale green.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific and Central Pacific region: Aldabra, Chagos, Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Seychelles; also off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia).

References
  1. Haliotis clathrata Reeve, 1846. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 October 2010.
  2. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890 (described as Haliotis naevosa Martyn)
  • Reeve, L.A. 1846. Descriptions of forty species of Haliotis, from the collection of H. Cumming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 14: 53–59
  • Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1850. Mollusca. pp. 45–87 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Vogage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve Vol. 3.
  • Ladd, H.S. in Ladd, H.S. & Hoffmeister, J.E. 1945. The Geology of Lau, Fiji. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 181: 331–370
  • Geiger, D.L. 2000 [1999]. Distribution and biogeography of the recent Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) world-wide. Bollettino Malacologico 35(5–12): 57-120
  • Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. (2000). A Conchological Iconography: The family Haliotidae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. 135pp 83pls.
  • "Haliotis (Haliotis) clathrata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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