Haliotis squamosa, common name the squamose abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[2]
| Haliotis squamosa | |
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| View of a shell of Haliotis squamosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Haliotidae |
| Genus: | Haliotis |
| Species: | H. squamosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Haliotis squamosa Gray, 1826
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Description
editThe 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
editThis species occurs in the Indian Ocean off southern Madagascar. Gray erroneously described the species to occur off Australia.
References
edit- ^ Peters, H. (2021). "Haliotis squamosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T78771710A78772608. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T78771710A78772608.en.
- ^ a b Haliotis squamosa Gray, 1826. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 April 2010.
- ^ H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
- Gray, Appendix to King's Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia ii, p. 494, 1826.
- Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. [29 February 2012] page(s): 129
External links
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- "Haliotis (Haliotis) squamosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.