Haliotis jacnensis

Haliotis jacnensis, common name : the Jacna abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[2]

Subspecies
  • Haliotis jacnensis jacnensis Reeve, 1846
  • Haliotis jacnensis kershawi Owen, 2012

Haliotis jacnensis
Haliotis jacnensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Haliotidae
Genus: Haliotis
Species:
H. jacnensis
Binomial name
Haliotis jacnensis
Reeve, 1846 [1]
Synonyms[2]

Description

The shell size varies between 7 mm and 25 mm. The oblong-ovate shell is spirally peculiarly rudely ridged. The ridges are very irregular and rather scaly, somewhat smooth next the perforations which are slightly tubiferous and distant. The coloration is reddish-orange. The interior surface is silvery. This is a very characteristic species, to which there is little or no approximation in any other.[3]

view of the shell from below

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Western Pacific Ocean.

References
  1. Reeve, Conch.Icon., t. 17, f. 73
  2. Haliotis jacnensis Reeve, 1846. 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
  • Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. (2000). A Conchological Iconography: The family Haliotidae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. 135pp 83pls.
  • Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. [29 February 2012] page(s): 53
  • "Haliotis (Haliotis) jacnensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
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