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Haliotis rugosa

Species of gastropod

Haliotis rugosa

Species of gastropod

  • Haliotis multiperforata Reeve, 1846
  • Haliotis nebulata Reeve, 1846
  • Haliotis pertusa Reeve, 1846
  • Haliotis revelata Deshayes, 1863

Haliotis rugosa, common name the many-holed abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.

Haliotis rugosa Reeve, 1846 is a homonym of Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus, 1758.

;Subspecies:

  • Haliotis rugosa multiperforata Reeve, 1846
  • Haliotis rugosa pustulata Reeve, 1846 (distribution: off Madagascar and the east coast of Africa, to the Red Sea and east to Yemen)
  • Haliotis rugosa rodriguensis Owen, 2013 (distribution: Rodrigues Island, Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean)
  • Haliotis rugosa rugosa Lamarck, 1822
Original drawing of a shell of ''Haliotis rugosa rugosa''

Description

The size of the shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm. The shells are oblong, barely arched, and slightly convex. They sport many colours in irregular bands or splotches along the outside of the shell, colours include: lime-green, bright white, and purple-maroon brown. The left side of the shell has many elevated holes set equally distant from each other, and are formed due to the breathing process. These sea snails breath through tubular filaments protruding from each hole, as such, the number of holes in an individual's shell does not change much though its several stages of growth.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Indian Ocean from the Red Sea south through most of the eastern coast of Africa, and east to Réunion and Mauritius.

References

  • Geiger, D.L. & Poppe, G.T., 2000. A Conchological Iconography. The family Haliotidae. ConchBooks, Germany. 1–135

References

  1. Peters, H.. (2021). "''Haliotis rugosa''".
  2. {{WRMS species. 463035. ''Haliotis rugosa'' Lamarck, 1822. 9 April 2010
  3. Owen, Buzz. (2013-05-02). "Notes on the correct taxonomic status of Haliotis rugosa Lamarck, 1822, and Haliotis pustulata Reeve, 1846, with description of a new subspecies from Rodrigues Island, Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae)". Zootaxa.
  4. (1843). "Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals". Reeve, Brothers.
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