Haliotis queketti

Haliotis queketti, common name Quekett's abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[1]

Haliotis queketti
Apical view of a shell of Haliotis queketti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Haliotidae
Genus:	Haliotis
Species:	H. queketti
Binomial name
Haliotis queketti E.A. Smith, 1910
Synonyms
Haliotis (Padollus) queketti E.A. Smith, 1910 (original combination)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 45 mm.

(Original description by E.A. Smith) "The depressed shell has an ovate shape with the raised ridge parallel to the row of holes only slightly raised. The upper surface exhibits numerous spiral lirae, minutely squamose through the close elevated lines of growth. The four open holes are rather prominent. The space between the holes and the outer margin is concave or channeled. The color of the shell is brownish-white with radiating blood-red streaks, narrow at the suture and gradually widening outwards. The left outer ledge is crossed by oblique, alternating, dark olive and pale stripes. The interior surface is beautifully iridescent, ridged and grooved. The columellar plate is whitish pearly, flattened, edged externally with a thin red line." [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique, the southern coast of South Africa, and off Kenya.

References

1. Haliotis queketti E.A. Smith, 1910. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 April 2010.
2. Smith, E. A. (1910) On South African Marine Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species. Annals of the Natal Museum, Vol. 2, 175–220, pls. 7–8

• Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. [29 February 2012] page(s): 115

External links

• "Haliotis (Haliotis) queketti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.