Haliotis alfredensis

Haliotis alfredensis
Original photo with two views of a shell of Haliotis alfredensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Haliotoidea
Family: Haliotidae
Genus: Haliotis
Species: H. alfredensis
Binomial name
Haliotis alfredensis
Bartsch, 1915

Haliotis alfredensis is a species of sea snail in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[1] It is known commonly as Port Alfred's abalone.[2] It is endemic to the waters off of South Africa.[3]

Description

The holotype was 55 by 39.5 millimeters long and 12 millimeters thick. The shell is an elongated oval with chestnut brown mottling and pale olive flecks. The sculpture has radiating, slanting threads on the whorlss, which are fine, becoming coarser on the last turn. The spiraling lira become less wavy toward the anterior side. The nacre is pinkish inside and more red in the spire. The spiral sculpture is visible on the inside. The shell is similar in shape to that of Haliotis midae, but without the rugose sculpture; the sculpture is more like that of Haliotis rugosa rugosa, but finer and more regular.[4]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Haliotis alfredensis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-13
  2. ↑ Haliotis alfredensis. Conchology, Inc.
  3. ↑ Franchini, P., et al. (2010). Karyotype and genome size estimation of Haliotis midae: estimators to assist future studies on the evolutionary history of Haliotidae. Journal of Shellfish Research, 29(4), 945-950.
  4. ↑ Bartsch, P. (1915). Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum v. 91.

References

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